-NOAA: NOAA decommissions weather satellite image- processing system after 24 years of service.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 October 1998-NOAA: NOAA decommissions weather satellite image-processing system after 24 years of service (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:141098 An era of satellite data distribution ended today when the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration decommissioned its GOES-TAP system, an analog system that provided near real-time imagery from weather satellites to users around the country.

The GOES-TAP, operated since the mid-1970s by NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), has been replaced by a state-of-the-art digital system known as NOAAPORT/AWIPS. "The action to replace GOES-TAP was prompted by National Weather Service requirements to access digital data...