As part of our involvement with the State of Maryland during the NASA SATS initiative, we developed a system for delivering AWOS (Automated Weather Observation System - also ASOS - Automated Surface Observation System) information from small airports across the state (or any other state) to the NWS (National Weather Service), to enhance weather-reporting capabilities and disseminate more accurate weather information to everyone.

Most General Aviation airports have an AWOS or ASOS systems which provides automated METAR (Aviation Routine Weather Report) weather observation data to the local airport.

Our AWOS Service gathers this data and stores it in our Operations Center. At configurable intervals (currently 20 minutes), the service uploads the latest data to the NWS Data Ingest Gateway, where it is disseminated to the various agencies that gather weather data from this central clearinghouse.

The pilot project, using the Microsoft .Net platform, which has been successfully operational for over a year, is now being extended to serve the entire state of Maryland. Other states are looking into our reliable weather delivery system as well.

As a part of this system, Miradyne also provides a user-friendly graphic web interface for viewing METAR data. This can be viewed here.