We are pleased to announce a new release (version 1.1) of the Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) Polar2grid software for reformatting VIIRS SDR data into reprojected GeoTIFF files and/or Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) NetCDF 3 gridded files. AWIPS is the visualization and analysis tool used operationally by the US National Weather Service (NWS).
What is new in this release?
- 24 bit true color geotiff image production is now supported.
- Users can now define their own local grids.
- This is now a joint CSPP/IMAPP release that can perform the reprojections on both VIIRS SDR and MODIS L1B files.
The software uses VIIRS CSPP or IDPS Science Data Record (SDR) HDF5 files as input, and transforms the requested I-Bands, M-Bands or Day/Night band data into high resolution reprojected Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) files, or a limited number of SDR Bands into gridded NetCDF files for display in AWIPS. The default GeoTIFF projection is the WGS 84/Platte Carrée coordinate system. The execution takes place using simple bash shell scripts, with the user specifying a directory containing the SDR files, or the files themselves. A number of projections and grids can be chosen. This open source software was developed by a team at the University of Wisconsin, led by David Hoese.
This software package is supported on 64 bit Intel Linux platforms. Source code, binaries, execution scripts and documentation are included at the CSPP website:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/cspp/
Please use the 'Contact Us' form from our website to submit any questions or comments about CSPP.
Best regards,
Kathy Strabala (For the CSPP team)