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February 21, 2008
** FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE ** Global Science & Technology to Demo Unique Weather Forecasting Systems at Maryland
Capitol NASA-Goddard Day
Annapolis,
MD – Global Science & Technology, Inc. Maryland’s leading innovators
of weather forecasting products, will be demonstrating its state-of-the-art
weather forecasting systems: DirectMet, WAFS/MetLab, and its newest
system called MODIS at the Maryland State Capitol, Presidential Conference
Center West Miller Senate Office on Thursday, February 21, 2008. All three systems
receive images and analyze information from weather satellites. The first system,
called DirectMet, is an affordable and powerful workstation that allows
the user to capture, analyze, and display live satellite weather images.
DirectMet is a complete direct read-out and analysis system for geostationary
satellite imagery. All data capture, product generation, and data
analysis functions can be performed on a single computer. Meteorologists,
broadcasters, and educators worldwide use DirectMet ground systems daily. “Our main
discriminator is the Tropical Storm and Hurricane Analysis software
in DirectMet,” explained Global Science & Technology Weather Group
Director Gene Shaffer. The second,
called the World Area Forecast System (WAFS)/MetLab is more sophisticated,
but equally impressive. “This workstation
is used by National Weather Service at its forecasting offices and by
over 20 other countries around the world,” Shaffer said. “It
combines worldwide observations, computer generated charts and computer
model forecasts into one display for forecasting and aviation support.” WAFS/MetLab
is a weather information workstation developed in partnership with the
New Jersey-based company 3SI. The system integrates weather reception,
display, analysis, and briefing packages into a complete, professional
forecasts workstation. (more) The system
can also be configured to handle almost every other type of weather
data and imagery, including satellite, Doppler radar, lightning, wind
and even Tsunami alerts. Along with
the DirectMet and WAFS, Global Science & Technology will show it’s
newest system called MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. “We developed
an end-to-end direct readout MODIS ground system that integrates a very
high quality polar tracking antenna and reception system supplied by
Orbital Systems, Inc. with Global Science & Technology’s processing
and analysis software package,” explained Shaffer. All three systems
are being demonstrated during the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Day
at the Maryland State Capitol, Presidential Conference Center West Miller
Senate Office on Thursday, February 21, 2008. Global Science
& Technology will also be displaying two DVD’s developed by the
Scientific Visualation Studio at Goddard. They are: “A
Tour of the Cryosphere, the Earth’s Frozen Assets” and “Multisensor
Fire Observations.” The mission
of the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) is to facilitate scientific
inquiry and outreach within NASA programs through visualization.
To that end, the SVS works closely with scientists in the creation of
visualization products, systems, and processes in order to promote a
greater understanding of Earth and Space Science research activities
at Goddard Space Flight Center and within the NASA research community. Global Science
& Technology animators and scientists actively support Goddard’s
SVS. For more information, contact John Dahlia’s direct line: (304) 368-1862 ext. 14; cell: (304) 657-7095; email: john.dahlia@gst.com.
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