Release of simulated MTG IRS Level 1B data package
Simulated Level 1B dataset of the Infrared Sounder (IRS), which will fly on Meteosat Third Generation sounding satellites (MTG-S), available for user familiarisation December 2019.
Last Updated
22 January 2021
Published on
12 December 2019
Dataset description
The dataset consists of a IRS dwell containing Level 1B spectra in native and Principle Component form, provided in netCDF format in line with the current IRS Level 0 and 1 Format Specification.
It is intended for format familiarisation and system testing.
Package usage
FTP access:
ftp://ftp.eumetsat.int/pub/OPS/out/test-data/Test-data-for-External-Users/MTG/MTG_IRS_Test-Data/
The MTG IRS Level 1B dataset is delivered as a compressed tar file: IRS_L1b_Format_Familiarisation_2.2.tar.gz
The unpacked contents are:
- W_XX-EUMETSAT-Darmstadt,SND+SAT,MTS1+IRS-1B-SSS--Q1--CHK-BODY-- DIS-NC4E_C_EUMT_20191112155611_IDPFS_DEV_20160315120800_2016031512081 0_N__C_0049_0049.nc:
contains the noisy radiances and dwell geometry information encoded in the full L1B spectra format scaled as 2byte integers. - W_XX-EUMETSAT-Darmstadt,SND+SAT,MTS1+IRS-1B-PC--Q1--CHK-BODY-- DIS-NC4E_C_EUMT_20191112154713_IDPFS_DEV_20160315120800_2016031512081 0_N__C_0049_0049.nc:
contains the above radiances re-encoded as principle components scaled as 4 byte integers, using the Eigen vectors and reconstruction operator provided in the following static support file. - CM__PCA-USER_MTS1+IRS_20191112180000_static.nc: contains the Eigenvectors and Reconstruction Operator
- Sha256sum.txt: checksum file
Documentation
A Package Description is provided via the above FTP server.
For more information and feedback on the dataset, contact our User Service Helpdesk.
