CSPP Geo GRB Version 1.0 Release
10 Aug 2018
The Version 1.0 release includes the following changes, relative to Version 0.4.7:
- Various stability improvements and minor bug fixes.
- Performance improvements to reduce overall product latency and CPU load.
- Improved handling of error conditions and edge cases.
- New configuration settings controlling program execution and product generation.
- Migrated to new quicklooks codebase; various quicklooks issues resolved and overall performance improved; new command-line options are available.
- Added support for multicast UDP ingest.
- Added GOES-17 GRB provisional processing capability.
- Interface changes: new installation procedure and environment setup; user-callable scripts have been renamed; package layout and default output directory structure have been reorganized.
- Added provisional support for ABI Mode 6.
- Logging improvements including: monitoring hooks for CADU reception rate by channel, correct log message levels now tagged in ingestor log, logging level is now configurable.
- Added CSPP Geo specific attributes to product files.
- Added a user-callable diagnostics script.
- The CentOS 7 platform is now explicitly supported in addition to CentOS 6
- Changes to program behavior in command-line mode. Note that command-line mode is now deprecated; only streaming mode will be supported in future Version 2.0.
Output is written to mission-standard NetCDF-4 files. Optionally, quicklooks can be generated from the ABI radiance product.
The test data package includes GOES-16 data from all instruments acquired from the antenna at the UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, as well as a data feeder test script. The test script frames the packets into CADUs, then sends the data as UDP datagrams to the ports monitored by the CSPP Geo GRB software, simulating a GRB data stream as delivered by a demodulator.
For information on installing, configuring and operating the software, refer to the CSPP Geo GRB Software Users' Guide.
