What is McIDAS?

It's the Man computer Interactive Data Access System

Overview: McIDAS is a suite of applications for analyzing and displaying meteorological data for research and education. McIDAS has been in use and under continual development by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) since 1972. The software can be used with conventional observational, satellite, and grid-point data. McIDAS-X is available for use on five UNIX platforms and five PC platforms (currently supported platforms).

Features:

Multiple data types. McIDAS may be used to analyze the full range of meteorological data: conventional, gridded numerical forecast, WSI radar, and satellite data.
Access to satellite imagery. The McIDAS software can be used to analyze any of the major satellite data sets: GOES, METEOSAT, POES, MODIS, FY-2, etc.
Access to NEXRAD imagery. The McIDAS software can be used to analyze NEXRAD products.
Standard meteorological analysis programs. The software can perform standard meteorological analyses for conventional observation and grid-point data.
Fully navigated displays. All earth-depicting displays produced by McIDAS are fully navigated; earth positioning is available for every point on the screen.
Multiple visualizations. Observational data can be analyzed into grid-point data, and grid-point data can be transformed into image visualizations.
Multiple graphic overlays.
Remapping of images into other coordinate projections.
Multiple frames and windows. McIDAS has multiple frames for image and graphic displays and multiple windows for text; the number of frames is defined by the user and limited only by workstation resources.
Image and graphic storage. McIDAS can store images and graphics in internal memory for quick redisplay and for combining displays into an animation.
Scheduled operations. McIDAS includes a scheduler facility that allows sites to create analyses at user-specified times.
Tools for site-specific software development.

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