Supporting Weather Data

About this technology

Overview

Global Science & Technology, Inc. (GST), designed the Regional Digital Information Network (RODIN) for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. RODIN is a Web-based information system that employs unique methods for extracting, organizing, and searching metadata. It has the built-in capability to automate the search, retrieval, and dissemination of data and data products over the Web. Under a license from NASA, GST has continued to develop RODIN as an add-on enhancement to the company's commercial products. DirectMetR is a direct-readout Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Receiver and Workstation for the ingestion, processing, and analysis of geostationary satellite imagery. Used worldwide by professional meteorologists, DirectMet is employed extensively throughout the Caribbean and Pacific to support hurricane tracking among many other applications. A new archive based on the RODIN technology provides DirectMet with a scalable expandable archive system that allows both directed and automated archival of raw and processed data, imagery products, and project files. Another application of RODIN is through MetLab,T a next-generation" meteorological workstation recently adopted by the U.S. National Weather Service as its internal World Area Forecast System Aviation Weather Terminal."