GOES-GVAR Groundstation

 1986 - Introduced Amiga Computer software "Live From Space" and the "MS-777" signal demodulator card for GOES weather satellite imagery reception.

 

1989 - APC-777 next generation GOES signal demodulator circuit card introduced.

 

1989 - Our first software product for the PC, "PC-RRWDS" was a display for the WSR-57 and WSR-74 weather radars.

 

1989 - Introduced the "SuperLooper", our first PC-based satellite imagery display system with dual monitor, GOES movie display capability.

 

1989 - Started SKYTAP services using 18" antennas and a spacecraft link. SKYTAP delivered GOES weather satellite images from the NWS Goes-Tap 4-wire telephone circuit out of Redwood City, California.

 

1990 - Super86 was born. This DOS-based satellite imagery display system used our own in-house windowing system and multitasking kernel.

 

1990 - MS-TEXT Alphanumerics processing software first released to support the NWS Family of Services alphanumeric data streams.

 

1991 - Super86 systems display DIFAX.

 

Equipment Room at the Nexrad Radar Operational Center (ROC)

 

 

 

1991 - Designed the DSP-777 signal processor for satellite signals and AP wire-photo applications.

 

1992 - Moved our SKYTAP weather data services to the Internet, adding Difax and Alphanumerics.

 

1992 - Developed first NEXRAD display for the PC.  

 

1993 - Super86 deployed worldwide for governemnt satellite imagery requirements

 

1993 - First Microsoft Windows software - Super86 for Windows

 

1994 - Our PC-based WinPUP Nexrad Direct-Connect systems that connect directly to the WSR88D radars.

 

1995 - First SAND release. SAND was for "Satellite", "Alpha", "Nexrad", "Difax".  

 

Nexrad Tower in Norman, OK

 

1998 - Developed GOES and Meteosat Groundstations.

 

1999 - HF-Facsimile Radio Transmitter software developed.

 

2000 - NOAA-Port systems developed.

 

2000 - Began development of Yosemite software package.

 

2003 - First beta release of Yosemite Meteorological Software Suite supporting analysis and display of satellite imagery, radar, gridded model data, and alphanumeric data.

 

2005 - Incorporated Data Collection Platform (DCP) data into Yosemite.

 

2008 - Introduced dual GOES East/West single-server data acquisition groundstation.

  

 

Part of our display at American Meteorological Society Convention

 
         2010 - Introduced Yosemite CloudÓ; bringing cloud computing to your desktop by enabling the user to overlay weather and
                other stored data from your database, along with multiple sources of public and private data and GIS onto street level map
            backgrounds, such as Yahoo Maps.