Data Flow
- flow charts: small
| large
- Data arrives at FSL's
GOES Local Groundstation System
- Applet currently
shows only GOES-8 data
- Converted to Lambert Conformal Conic Projection
- (standard projection used by NWS Workstations)
- 5-km resolution (for large national image)
- Fast spatial bilinear interpolation technique
- Uses navigation information from the satellite itself
- Results in very little jitter and shifting
- (much less than raw feed seen on WeFax)
- Fortran and C languages, output in netCDF
format
Last modified: Wed Nov 19 15:07:29 MST 1997