Where to get RADAR data? was: Re: [Mapserver-users] variable (proportionately) sized point data

[Daryl Herzmann]

Hi Tyler,

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Tyler Mitchell wrote:

>Gerry, I'm also curious on what's going on in the backend - some neat
>stuff at any rate.  Where do you get radar?

You can get the RADAR imagery from my WMS service.

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wms/comprad.php?

Or you can download the composites directly from.

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/data/gis/images/unproj/USCOMP/

Or if you are like Gerry and myself and have the raw NIDS NWS Level III
data, you can convert these datafiles into composite GIS rasters.  My
crude HOWTO on this procedure can be found here.

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/docs/radmapserver/howto.html

The composites aren't the pretty ones you can get from the commercial 
vendors, but they work :)

later,
  daryl

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