SDI Operator's Manual
Version 2005

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Chapter 1

SDI Overview

The SSEC Desktop Ingestor (SDI) takes a simple approach to satellite data ingesting. A fast PC plus a modified third party interface card receives clock and data from a bit sync. For high data rate satellites, such as GVAR and POES, the entire serial data stream is ingested into memory, blocked into 1 Mbyte files, and written to disk. These files are called Stretched Data Format (SDF) files. An independent program analyzes the SDF files to build index files to the information in the SDFs. Data access is handled by an ADDE server running on the ingest processor without interfering with the ingest process. For low data rate satellites, such as METEOSAT PDUS, image files are built directly as the data is received. The image files contain the raw satellite transmission aligned on byte boundaries with sync removed.

The advantages to these approaches are:

This chapter is divided into the following sections:


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