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The GOES Box for GOES, Himawari, GK2A, or FY2

The GOES Box is a specialized computer system with a built-in receiver designed to both ingest and process data from the GOES satellites. Our standard GOES Box is supplied with a specialized integrated feed with downconverter, and a 2.4 to 3.8 meter pointable fixed position satellite dish. Our popular multiuser SuperLooper animation and image processing software is included with the GOES Box. It is specifically designed to quickly and easily loop or animate a time lapse series of images. Versions of the GOES Box are available for NOAA GOES, JMA Himawari, KMA GK2A, and CMA FY-2 satellites. For more detailed information about the GOES Box and the SuperLooper, please refer to our brochures below or contact us. GOES Box Brochure: Quick Browser View | Printable/High Res Download SuperLooper Brochure: Quick Browser View | Printable/High Res Download

The GOES Dish, Typical 3.0m

The POES Box

The POES Box is a legacy product for reception of L Band polar orbiting satellites.     It is a powerful, specialized computer system with a built-in receiver, designed to ingest and process data from POES satellites for meteorology, oceanology, land use management, or other purposes. Polar orbiting satellites provide highly detailed multispectral data with 1 km resolution, and each of the polar orbiting satellites provides at least two data sets daily. Our standard POES Box system is supplied with a 2.4 meter dish, and a specialized integrated feed. The POES Box also includes our POES Image Viewer software. The tracking and reception portion of this system can also be used to track and receive data from many MicroSats in either L, S, or X band and we are willing to customize our Receiver IP to handle the wide variety of PSK signal and coding formats,  For more detailed information contact us.

The POES Dish, Old Style

The Rapid Visualization Tool Workstation

The Rapid Visualization Tool (RVT) Workstation is a specialized 64 bit PC workstation running our powerful RVT software that utilizes advanced 3D technology to show you a photo-realistic Earth with real-time weather satellite data mapped on top of it. This photo-realistic Earth may be navigated around, as though you were the pilot of a spaceship - you may look at the Earth and the surrounding data from any perspective, controlling the position and altitude, and furthermore facing any compass direction or viewing the earth from any angle. In the RVT, the operator can change any combination of the viewing channel, position, altitude, direction, and angle, and these changes take effect virtually instantaneously. The RVT allows users to animate data through time or space to fully observe and understand weather conditions. Time-lapse loop animations allow the operator to view the progression of weather systems. Traditional weather satellite systems limit you to only animating through time; the RVT also allows you to animate through space. Fly-throughs, or smooth animations through space, allow the user to rapidly view extended areas in a high degree of detail. The Slideshow mode of the RVT allows users to rapidly move through a sequence of their defined areas.

The Rapid Visualization Tool

The RVT allows you to display and enhance the standard satellite-provided spectral channels and informational channels that we derive from the satellite data. These include the visible, infrared, water vapor, sea surface temperature, and rainfall rate channels. Furthermore, the software allows for various overlays including cloud motion vectors, cities, political and geographic boundaries, or other user-defined landmarks. The RVT is also the ultimate product generation tool that allows you to easily and automatically export hundreds of different views as image files in real-time. The Image Gallery, comprised exclusively of images exported from the RVT, contains a section showcasing several of the RVT Features described here. The RVT obtains its data from a GOES Box or a POES Box. Multiple RVT Workstations can acquire their data from a single GOES or POES Box, or multiple GOES and POES Boxes may provide the RVT with data. For more detailed information about the Rapid Visualization Tool Workstation, please refer to our brochures below or contact us.

RVT Workstation Brochure:
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LRIT/HRIT Front End

KMA GK2A, NOAA GOES, and Chinese FY2 all send low to mid resolution realtime satellite imagery and other meteorological data in the L Band (1682-1700Mhz) this data can be received with low cost software defined receivers but reception and image quality is typically affected by the strong mobile carriers also present in the L band.     To give you an idea of how strong these mobile carriers can be up to 1000000 times stronger than the satellite carrier which is very weak!     This has had a significant effect on several of our systems for over a decade (since the growth of upper band mobile). to address this we have produced a series of improved electronics over the years and have recently done further work in this regard and have created a front end module that provide a very high degree of interference rejection while maintaining the linearity and phase of the satellite signal. The solution consists of 2 modules a small LNA that is directly connected to the satellite feed and another electronics module that sits behind the dish and does the magic!     It should work with any linear scalar L-Band feed that does not have any built-in electroncs.    We support output at either 140Mhz for many legacy demodulators/receivers or 1200Mhz for the typical SDR Receiver.       We also do offer two styles of L Band feeds for small (1m-2m) offset dishes and 1.8-3m prime focus dishes. As we only produce these in low volume using expensive high grade parts, the price is $3500USD but if you are  buying more than 2 we are willing to significantly discount.    If you also need/want an appropriate feed contact us to discuss.    We also have complete systems for KMA GK2A HRIT that include this Front End and the RVT Workstation and software at highly discounted pricing for 3 or more systems in 2026.   Contact us for more details and pricing.

The Multi Satellite Systems

We combine the products listed above into systems that operate with multiple satellites. These systems include one or more GOES boxes - each of which works with a different GOES satellite, optionally a POES Box, and one or more RVT Workstations. In these multi-system packages, data is quickly and seamlessly moved between systems using giga-bit ethernet. We also are happy to combine our standard products with custom systems or software to create a package that meets your organization's requirements. For more information, please consult our MSS Brochure. As Multi Satellite Systems may vary depending on an organization's needs, please contact us to discuss which Multi Satellite System can best serve you.

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