The University of Wisconsin - Madison SSEC is pleased to announce the release of the CSPP Geo GRB Version 0.1 Prototype software package. This is the initial release of software that will allow Direct Broadcast users to process GOES Rebroadcast (GRB) data received on their antennas from the GOES-R satellite, after it is launched in 2016. The software is publicly available and free to use.
The main functionality included in this release is to ingest a simulated GRB data stream, recover Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 1 and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Level 2 data payloads, reconstruct the datasets, and write output to mission-standard NetCDF files. Optionally, quicklook images can be generated from the ABI radiances.
The minimum system requirements for the CSPP Geo GRB software are:
- 12 core, 2.4 GHz CPU with 64-bit instruction support,
32GB RAM,
CentOS 6 64-bit Linux (or other compatible 64-bit Linux distribution),
100 GB disk space.
A simulated ABI / GLM test case is provided, along with a test script that simulates the GRB data stream by sending UDP packets on a socket. In our internal testing, the software was able to keep up with the expected GRB data rate without packet loss when running on the recommended hardware.
Support for processing data from the other GOES-R instruments will be added in future releases, as well as performance optimizations. Note also that the interface and runtime behavior may still change somewhat after this prototype release.
The CSPP Geo GRB software and documentation can be downloaded from:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/csppgeo/
Please feel free to respond to me if you have any questions or comments, or for technical support contact csppgeo.issues@ssec.wisc.edu.
Best regards,
Graeme, on behalf of the CSPP Geo team