[gdal-dev] Reading older NOAA GOES sat data in McIDAS format?

[Kurt Schwehr]

Hi all,

A little off topic for GDAL as I'm not suggesting GDAL needs a driver for
this.

Does anyone know of tools other than McIDAS-X / McIDAS-V for reading older
NOAA GOES 08-15 data as described in the McIDAS Programmer's Manual
<https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/doc/prog_man/2003print/progman2003-formats.html>
as
AREAnnnn - Area (image) files? e.g. the files here:

https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/noaa-goes-legacy

One example file:

wget
https://storage.googleapis.com/noaa-goes-legacy/goes11/2010/008/goes11.2010.008.004514.BAND_04

strings goes11.2010.008.004514.BAND_04 | egrep -i '[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]'
RT GVAR
GVARRAW
GVAR100J
MORERAVG
MORERAVG
MORERAVG
MORERAVG
16154 202023 IMGCOPY DELIVERY/IN2393848603.1 DELIVERY/AR2393848603.4
LINELE=2557              10065 I PLACE=ULEFT BAND=4 DOC=YES MAG=-1 -1
SIZE=982 2853

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/_modules/PIL/McIdasImagePlugin.html
might be a start but it doesn't look to readthe associated meta data so I
haven't even tried running it.

Thanks!
-Kurt
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