Mcdias Software

Added: May 18, 2017 10:31 am NOAA's Acquisition & Grants Office, SIAD Branch, intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with University of Wisconsin Systems to renew Mcidas yearly software maintenance McIdas software is the cornerstone for ESPC's GOES applications used to create weather products from satellite imagery. McIdas software performs a wide variety of functions with satellite data, including acquiring, displaying (static and time-lapse), analyzing, interpreting and managing the data. McIdas software is designed to handle large amounts of data in a convenient manner, and is a vast resource of image-processing and applications programs and subroutines. In order to receive patches and updates as well as software support, the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison requires a McIdas User's Group (MUG) annual fee.

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