The objective of this guide is inform and educate weather station operators, software developers, and hardware manufacturers on the desired performance for collecting automated meteorological observations for the Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP). We encourage prospective weather station operators to review system performance guidelines when selecting weather stations to determine which vendors meet these guidelines. We also encourage weather application developers to use these guidelines to process raw data using this guide’s recommendations for data sampling and reporting, particularly for the Automated Position Reporting System (APRS) protocol which CWOP uses to as its interface control document for weather message formatting.
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