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NOAAPORT Receive System

Since March 2005 the National Weather Service has been using Digital Video Broadcast via Satellite (DVB-S) as the transmission method for its NOAAPORT data stream. In order to receive and process the data, the following are required: a DVB-S receiver; an ingest computer with a second network interface card; installation of software to read and process the output of the DVB-S receiver; installation of LDM software to make the data available remotely.

The NOAAPORT Receive System contains necessary LDM and DVB reader software and detailed installation and configuration instructions. Only McIDAS Users' Group (MUG) members subscribed to the McIDAS-XCD participation category can download the software. SSEC and the MUG thank Unidata for providing the software.

Click here for hardware recommendations and a data ingest flow diagram for the NOAAPORT Receive System.

Installation Instructions for the NOAAPORT Receive System

A few notes before you proceed:

  • The NOAAPORT Receive System is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • Your ingestor computer will have to have a C compiler environment installed in order to compile the LDM as well as the DVB reader software.
  • Shared memory must be enabled on your ingestor computer in order for the DVB reader software to work.
  • The LDM product queue and log files will take several gigabytes of disk space and must be located on a local disk. Because of the volatile nature of these files they should not be included in automated backups.

Choose the appropriate procedure below to install or update your NOAAPORT Receive System.
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