[Mapserver-users] NEXRAD composites with Mapserver

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

http://mesonet.tamu.edu/gemdata/images/radar/01_USrad.gif
http://mesonet.tamu.edu/gemdata/images/radar/01_USrad.wld

Looks like it's working better now.

I'll also consider regionals.  Do we want to offer a WMS service with 
DNS failover or DNS round-robin?

gerry

Daryl Herzmann wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Steve Lime wrote:
> 
> 
>>Sweet! I've been looking for ready-to-serve radar data for a long time.
>>I'm assuming the regional image boundaries are consistent so one could
>>create a tiled image layer in MapServer pretty easily. Now you're gonna
>>have to deal with people 1Mb of radar data every 5 minutes...
> 
> 
> Thanks for your comments.  I will consider generating regional tiles.  
> Since you are probably interested in the areas immediate to Minnesota, I 
> also generate a Midwest composite at a higher resolution... (0.01 degree 
> pixel versus 0.02 degree pixel)  
> 
> http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/data/gis/images/unproj/MWCOMP/
> 
> Perhaps I can get a high resolution floater up and running tonight for 
> Isabel?  For those interested, here is NASA site with GIS imagery 
> 
> http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/
> 
> for instance
> 
> http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2003260-0917/Isabel2.A2003260.1824.2km.jpg
> 
> 
> Later,
>   Daryl
> 

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