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From: fmh@Solbourne.COM (Frank Hungerford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Satellite Weather Windows
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.001333.25116@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 91 00:13:33 GMT
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc.
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Blue Skies International of Salt Lake City, Utah has become a leader in 
low cost weather satellite imaging products for the IBM PC. These systems 
receive and display beautiful visible and infra-red images from United States,
Japanese and Soviet geostationary and polar orbiting satellites. These images
are global, regional or local to a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers depending
on the satellite and its orbit. Images from Europe, Africa, Asia and the 
Pacific areas are relayed to the United States geostationary satellites
providing many views a day of these areas of the world.  The geostationary
satellites transmit images at the rate of 12-15 images per hour and the polar 
satellites continuously transmit images to earth as they fly overhead (usually 
10-13 minutes for a high arc fly over).

A demonstration disk is available with seven pre-captured images in a 
sophisticated windowing environment.  Many tools are available for the user 
including high definition area zoom; four image palettes including gray, 
infra-red, negative and user defined; automatic capture of preselected images 
throughout the day and night; image sequence animation and a large selection 
of calibration and alignment tools. All that is required is a mouse to navigate
through the windowing system, tools and on-line help.

For the IBM PC (VGA) user with interests in meteorology, these systems are truly
remarkable. For more information or to request a demonstration disk (enclose
five dollars for shipping and handling) write to:


		Blue Skies International
		36 South State Street
		Suite 3000
		Salt Lake City, Utah 84111