Welcome to the McIDAS Website.
In existence since 1973, McIDAS (Man computer Interactive Data
Access System) is a suite of sophisticated software packages
that perform a wide variety of functions with satellite imagery,
observational reports, numerical forecasts, and other geophysical
data. Those functions include displaying, analyzing, interpreting,
acquiring and managing the data. [more]
This website, administered by McIDAS
User Services at the Space
Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) of the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, has a variety of uses, including:
- information for visitors interested in learning about the McIDAS software packages
- access to software, documentation and other information for McIDAS Users' Group members
- access to these free software packages: McIDAS-V (an alpha version of the successor to McIDAS-X [SSEC's flagship visualization and data analysis software package]), McIDAS-Lite (a satellite
image viewer for working with McIDAS areas or MODIS HDF files), and OpenADDE (a package used to
serve geophysical data to client workstations)
Thank you for visiting the McIDAS Website!