The Data Centre Download Tool provides users a convenient way to download their orders made using the Data Centre Archive Ordering Application .

This version only works with Java SE 7. Please refer to the attached documents for installation and usage.

Installation Guide (PDF, 103 KB)

User Guide (PDF, 233 KB)

Use this version if you have Java SE 6 installed and for some reason cannot update to recommended Java SE 7. Please refer to the attached documents for installation and usage.

Please refer to the attached documents for installation and usage.

Installation Guide (PDF, 103 KB)

User Guide (PDF, 233 KB)

The Satellite Dish Pointer/Alignment Calculator helps those who wish to point their antennas at the Meteosat satellites determine the azimuth and elevation coordinates given their latitude/longitude position. It also allows approximate determination of coordinates such as latitude/longitude. Enter the address, postcode, city or geocode for any location on earth, and select the satellite.

 Dishpointer.com (0 degrees)

The navigation software incorporates source code written in Fortran 90 and C-Code, for the conversion of image coordinates (pixel column and row) into the corresponding geographical coordinates (Latitude and Longitude) of Meteosat-9 (MSG) Level 1.5 VIS/IR data. The theoretical basis for the software is the CGMS (Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites) LRIT/HRIT Global Specifications (PDF, 260 KB) .

Additional information about how to use the software is given as comments in the source code.

Developed by EUMETSAT, the coastline program enables users to overlay coastal outlines on to VIS/IR/WV channel JPEG or GIF files.

Documentation (PDF, 111 KB)
Meteosat-7 sample image with coastlines overlay applied (JPG, 63 KB)
Meteosat-6 sample rapid scan image with coastlines overlay applied (JPG, 61 KB)

The Extended File Transfer Software (EFTS) Agents is a collection of processes that enable local or remote file transfer, copying, and manipulation. It can be used to transfer files to or from a remote server, using various transfer protocols; pre-process files before physically copying or linking them into one or more other directories.

The EFTS Agents software is written in Java and can, therefore, be used on multiple platforms without the need of having to recompile the software. The Java 2 runtime environment (JRE) v1.4, or higher, must be installed on the system before installing the EFTS Agents software. It is recommended that you download the latest available Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) JRE, available from the Java website .

Documentation (PDF, 345 KB)

The MSG Native image reader allows visualisation of MSG native images and works under Windows. Please make sure you read the 'readme' file before use.

Documentation (PDF, 458 KB)

The Interactive Data Language (IDL) software is ideal for data analysis, visualisation, and cross-platform application development. Many of the built-in features of IDL are designed specifically for remote sensing applications. IDL has been selected to read, process, and analyse the EPS products.

The EPS Product IDL Readers are able to process multiple versions of the product format, and, due to its object-oriented design, makes them ideal for application development. A basic knowledge of object-oriented programming and IDL is required to make full use of the software, once the EPS products are read into memory. For users more familiar with the original procedural read routines a second read routine based on the IDL EPS product readers version 2.0 has been included with this release, the procedural read routine can only read products with fixed sized records (all except GOME Level 1, GRAS Level 1, ATOVS Level 2, IASI Level 1 PCS, and IASI Level 2). These read routines are for EPS operational native products ONLY. Products in formats such as HDF, BUFR, GRIB etc. are not supported with this release. Products that have been cropped by band number by the Archive cannot be read (since this changes the format of the products), however products cropped by the Archive using the record start and stop time can be read.

Documentation (PDF, 410 KB)

Kai is a tool used for processing EPS Product Format Specification (PFS) format products. It has several functions:

- To split a full sized product into non-overlapping, three minute chunks, simulating the PDUs produced in the EPS Ground Segment.
- To combine Product Dissemination Units (PDUs), or other fragments of products, together into a large product. The input pieces may include overlapping ranges, in which case only the last one specified will be kept.
- To manipulate products at the record level by selectively adding or removing records, for example removing ranges of MDRs or all records of a certain subclass.
- To repair certain format errors in existing products.
- As a basic viewer to display the complete MPHR, SPHR, IPR, GEADR, VEADR and VIADR-L0-OBT2UTC records, and the generic record headers for all other records.

Documentation (PDF, 421 KB)

The NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Altimetry group provides a set of C, Fortran and IDL routines, which allows to read in all the fields contained in the Jason2 NetCDF products. Example reading programs are included, which can be easily adapted and integrated in the user software. It requires a NetCDF library built and installed (NetCDF library ). This software has been tested using NetCDF 4.2. Copyright 2008, 2012 USDOC/NOAA/NESDIS Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry.

Documentation (PDF, 1.1 MB)

The Metopizer is a collection of tools for manipulating CCSDS Instrument Source Packets and other related data types (CADU, t-VCDU packets, Metop L0 products).

See the Metopizer User Guide (PDF, 1.3 MB) for more details.

Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS) has developed the METCAP+ software package to visualise meteorological data, such as observations (Synop, Metar, temp, etc); NWP model data output; RGB imagery products and satellite products, and radar data. The software runs on MS Windows platforms. This software is only available to National Meteorological Services (NMS).

Documentation (PDF, 32 MB)