The Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) is a direct service that provides users with weather forecasts, warnings, graphics, and other information directly from the National Weather Service (NWS) in near real time. The GOES EMWIN relay service is one of a suite of methods to obtain these data and display the products on the user’s personal computer. The HRIT (High Rate Information Transmission) service provides broadcast of low-resolution GOES satellite imagery data and selected products to remotely located user HRIT Terminals.
The GOES-R series will continue the current broadcast services of LRIT (Low Rate Information Transmission) and EMWIN but will do so at a significantly higher data capacity. This will be accomplished by combining the two services into a single service with a data relay capacity of 400Kbps. This compares with the current LRIT service at 128 Kbps and EMWIN which transmits at 9.6 kbps on the GOES I-M (8-12) series and 19.2 kbps for the GOES-NOP (13-15) series. The new service will be called HRIT/EMWIN—HRIT for High Rate Information Transmission.
With the encouragement from NWS (operator of the EMWIN Program) and NESDIS (operator of the current GOES LRIT service) the GOES-R Program undertook a technology demonstration program to show that relatively inexpensive receivers designed for the new service could:
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Support not only HRIT/EMWIN but all of the predecessor services, eliminating costly and disruptive changes to the user systems as the services evolve from the GOES-I-M era, to the GOES-NOP series, and finally to the GOES-R series. |
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Through the technology of Software Defined Radio, the receiver could consist of a modest amount of hardware (an antenna, low noise amplifier and a computer interface) at very low cost. The bulk of the traditional signal processing, error correction decoding and data recovery and display could be done in a convention personal computer. |
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Have a design that is available to all users, hobbyist and manufacturers, with the software available to anyone at no cost. |
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| For more additional documentation about HRIT/EMWIN, please visit the Receiver Links section. |
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| HRIT System Diagram |
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Additional information about current operational LRIT and EMWIN Services can be found at:
For LRIT: http://www.noaasis.noaa.gov/LRIT/
For EMWIN: http://www.weather.gov/emwin/
October 17-19, 2011: The 116th meeting of the GOES Data Collection System (DCS) Technical Working Group (TWG) and Satellite Telemetry Interagency Working Group (STIWG) was held in conjunction with the 7th GOES Users’ Conference (GUC) in Birmingham, Alabama. More
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