WEATHER SATELLITE IMAGERY High Resolution Picture Transmission: The Next Challenge

摘要

Over the past several years, Amateur reception of polar orbiting weather satellite imagery has become increasingly sophisticated and accessible to Amateur Radio operators. There is now a large population of hams and non-hams alike that receive weather satellite pictures from American and Soviet polar orbiters on a daily basis. These high resolution images can be captured with simple receivers in the vhf range and displayed on various types of personal computers. Commercial paint programs for the PC and other digital image enhancement routines commonly available to the public allow for sophisticated post-processing of these pictures for temperature analyses, coloriza-tion of land and sea features, three dimensional perspectives, etc.