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