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GeoSatSignal Changelog

What's new in GeoSatSignal 8.2.7 Build 1190

Jan 6, 2023
  • Start GOES-18 work, label GOES-17 data as "GOES-18", update Mid-Atlantic 500mb overlays for 24-hour and 36-hour versions.

New in GeoSatSignal 8.2.6 Build 1187 (Jun 13, 2022)

  • Change to user licence key for faster start-up - re-enter your existing key but without Run as Administrator.
  • Start FY-2H support, start IODC at 45.5 degrees support - IODN image files required, file|browse EUMETCast updated, recognise IODN and FY-2H in World View, support PPVA.gif overlay 1076x790 pixels with more tolerance on the file name - latest used, add pop-up hint to IR thumbnail with file and overlay paths, add 5000x5000 remapping, faster remapping (with new runtimes), trap error at program exit on a couple of systems where HTMLhelp may not be installed? New runtime Library Bundle optional.

New in GeoSatSignal 8.2.4 Build 1169 (Apr 25, 2019)

  • Support ppag50bw.gif overlay (1728 x 1100 pixels), restore support for boundary data with spaces in the file name, update Himawari RGB naming to 16-channel B01..B16, Start RGB support for Himawari ("H-Pure RGB" correct, "H-Airmass" useable, "B03" accepted as well as "vis"), add XL world remapping (11000 x 5500), add GeoTIFF output for World View, update EUMETCast browser for GOES-E/W being GOES-16/17, remove Met-7, update GOES-16 mapping for non-standard American projection, including in World View, increase the GOES-E coverage in World View, try to optimise World View for missing or partial GOES-W, support native GOES-17 in World View, temporary fixes for GOES-15 at 128° W including world view, added 128° W land/sea mask, start GOES-17 at 137° W support, add GeoTIFF output for Plate-Carreé projection, extend allowed latitude and longitude spans when remapping, add magnification setting for city marker text.

New in GeoSatSignal 8.2.2 Build 1142 (Apr 24, 2018)

  • Support MSG/IODC & GOES-16 in World View, support for Himawari B12 (as IR_096), support GOMS-2 including remapping, don't show Notice of the Day dialog if the directory doesn't exist, widen LUT drop-down boxes on Job Setup form, correct IODC land/sea mapping, correct 2300 + 1 hour TZ bias displaying day incorrectly, start GOES-16 support (rectification offset point is 75° W, country boundaries supported, land/sea LUTs supported, RGB combinations preliminary support, a few suggested RGB added including night microphysics (note the revised format just for GOES-ABI data), file names matching the GOES ABI Manager format (201711071600-g16-b13.jpg), note that data is preliminary, may not map correctly), setup option for lower-case saved file names, correct "Space is grey" in GOES-16 world view, parallel-scan thermal files are GOES-mode-A, FY-2E (labelled fy2d) etc. thermal files are GOES-mode-A, support GSHHG 2.3.7 shoreline & country bondary data format, correct missing User2 boundaries, add GPX to boundary File|Open list.

New in GeoSatSignal 8.1.8.1116 (Feb 14, 2018)

  • Add HRV/full land/sea mask support.

New in GeoSatSignal 7.4.5.1076 Beta (Mar 14, 2014)

  • add support for new format MSG News admin messages, resolve faint overlay with "Atlantic surface".

New in GeoSatSignal 7.4.5.1071 Beta (Jan 30, 2014)

  • update Ton's "Rain Radar B" (files named: r-cse140126_2300.gif, initial support, to be tweaked?).

New in GeoSatSignal 7.4.5.070 Beta (Jan 25, 2014)

  • add GMOS-1 mid-IR option - ir4 - in Browse EUMETCast.

New in GeoSatSignal 7.4.5.1069 Beta (Jan 14, 2014)

  • Add GOMS support for background mode and HRV rapid-scan for Europe & Wide options.

New in GeoSatSignal 7.4.3.1067 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Add another DWDSAT Bracknell overlay setting - DWDSAT Z1.

New in GeoSatSignal 7.4.3.1066 (Dec 10, 2013)

  • Fix GOMS .PNG vis/IR file pairs not being recognized.

New in GeoSatSignal 7.4.1.1057 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • Recognise "northern" HRV RSS data with "full" width HRV option
  • add View|Overlay list menu item you can select and copy the list to the clipboard
  • add yet another Bracknell overlay Bracknell 3 for images 1180 x 864 pixels
  • add Ton's new r-eu overlay (named as "Rain radar Europe B" on the drop-down list, images are 520 x 571 pixels, colours yet to be defined)
  • accept PNG as the logo bitmap (PNG can be transparent, in which case it is assumed to occupy the full image size, and the user is responsible its placement and avoiding and existing text etc., note that this will take more memory while reading the logo)
  • in user annotation text, accept all time format strings (these are: %yyyy %yy %mm � %hh %nn)
  • start basic GOMS1 support for channels vis3 and ir9 including in Browse EUMETCast function.

New in GeoSatSignal 7.4.0.1048 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Recognise "full height" HRV data with "full" width HRV option
  • Add support for FY-2D files for World View mode
  • Support FY-2C/D/E 1 km visible data for RGB combine
  • Trap error when one RGB channel doesn't exist
  • Add support for Meteosat-10/11 Ash, Fog etc. products
  • Add save of mapping as text file of lat/lon pairs
  • Win-XP/64 and Vista/64 are no longer supported.
  • Version capable of using more virtual memory on Windows-7/8 64-bit systems. You can check the available virtual memory in the Help, About dialog.
  • Little testing. May crash.

New in GeoSatSignal 7.3.6.1030 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Restore station marker, accidentally broken in V7.3.4

New in GeoSatSignal 7.3.4.1029 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Updates to Browse EUMETCast
  • remembers last user-specified day/hour/minute
  • faster display of file name hints
  • Experimental RGB mode on FY2, GOES, Met-7 & MTSAT data
  • open the visible channel file
  • supported equivalent channel names are
  • VIS006 MSG01 Visible (0.6 µm)
  • IR_039 MSG04 Mid-IR (3.9 µm)
  • WV_062 MSG05 WV (6.2 µm)
  • IR_108 MSG09 IR (10 µm)
  • IR_120 MSG10 IR (12 µm)
  • not all channels are available on every satellite
  • different satellites require different gain settings
  • Support MTSAT-2 McIDAS data ..
  • file type .BIN, added to File|Open dialog
  • from: http://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/mtsat/
  • IR (4km) and visible (1km) supported
  • per-job option to use just the southern hemisphere 1km
  • temperatures are NOT valid!
  • multi-channel combination not supported
  • animation not supported
  • Support HRV background mode on more HRV segment
  • Updates for more recent Bracknell overlay
  • use Job setup, Remapping, Overlay "Bracknell 2"
  • Allow larger fonts in the thermal calibration scale

New in GeoSatSignal 7.3.2.1016 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Accept more Dundee images for RGB
  • Add RSD GOES-15 support
  • Add option for satellite name in common timestamp
  • Options, Common setup, Annotation
  • Time format or Date format
  • string "%sat" (no quotes) is replaced by satellite name
  • example time format: hhmm "UTC" %sat
  • Add option for year annotation
  • in Common setup, Annotation, Text
  • string %yyyy replaced by the year, if available.
  • example: "Copyright (C) %yyyy EUMETSAT"
  • Enhance support for FY-2D
  • identify WV channel correctly
  • Add FY-2D to File|Browse EUMETCast... function
  • Revised HRV mapping
  • will work best with the MSG Data Manager 2.6 data
  • Add per-job boundary & gridding offset
  • Accept GSHHS 2.2 boundary data

New in GeoSatSignal 7.2.6.1006 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • GOES-15 support
  • accept GOES15 as well as GOES11 in many places
  • correct WV aspect for GOES-15 on Browse|EUMETCast
  • handle Dundee image GOES-15 data
  • Add "RGB AVHRR-like" to RGB suggested settings
  • emulates AVHRR RGB124 appearance
  • best used with the XferClipBlue RGB xfer setting
  • can also be used on Dundee images
  • Correct error in finding MSG Ch.9 Dundee images from RGB

New in GeoSatSignal 7.2.4.1002 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Add RGB suggested settings option
  • settings stored in the file: GeoSatSignal-RGB.ini
  • can edit GeoSatSignal-RGB.ini with a text editor e.g. notepad
  • samples supplied for Airmass, Ash, Dust and Fog
  • Provide better edge results on "Crop" remapping may have affected other mappings
  • When using vegetation accept ch.2 as "opened" file as well as ch.1
  • When using R3G2B1 for snow ..
  • accept ch.2 and ch.3 as "opened" files as well as ch.1
  • More tolerance of mixed JPG/PNG data in RGB mode
  • hope this doesn't affect anything else
  • Correct recognition of FY2C mid-IR channel for fire mode
  • Add protection and warning if wrong channel opened

New in GeoSatSignal 7.2.2.996 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Add 3200 x 2400 mapping resize option
  • Add option to save Plane Plotter calibration
  • decimals saved with "." delimiter
  • error message if path is wrong
  • Increase number of jobs to 100 (numbered 0..99)
  • the list is now in four columns
  • you may get an error message on the first run
  • French language update
  • Resolve mapping shift after Bracknell overlay used

New in GeoSatSignal 7.2.0.987 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Improved EUMETCast browse path detection when RSS not used
  • Update default directory locations for World View option and for Admin reports location
  • Update World View:
  • addition maximum size - 6144 x 3072 pixels
  • provide better visual indication of progress
  • add option for black border
  • add command-line option for setting the size (e.g. -WSIZE:1024)
  • add smooth transition option
  • extend MSG (Europe/Africa) image, if GOES-E is partial
  • add pre-load of MTSAT so that GOES-W can merge in
  • add option to define data as "stale" if too old mark stale images and play sound
  • handle missing/stale data by extending adjacent satellite
  • drop support for WEFAX split LR/LY/GMSN/GMSS sectors option to use FY-2E data
  • in addition you can leave the FY-2E field blank (as now)
  • 5-picture or 6-picture view is automatically detected
  • command-line can specify five images as now or six images (GOES-W GOES-E MSG Met-7 FY-2E MTSAT) in West-to-East order
  • French language update
  • Correct Options/JobSetup/Annotation secondary user hint

New in GeoSatSignal 7.1.6.977 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • Add white/black background option for World Map remapping
  • Add Atlantic Surface Analysis overlay data from: http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/A_sfc_full_ocean.gif
  • Recognise IDE00006/IDE00005 as Vis/IR pair
  • Note that WV and LUTs aren't working as expected
  • Use either IR or WV temperature lookup as appropriate when making "False Colour" image from WV channel alone. Was always using IR lookup which gave errors on some data.
  • Job settings:
  • False-colour: Normal
  • Thermal FC unchecked
  • Brightness adjust: None
  • CLUT: none
  • Vis.ch: LutWV-ucar
  • Accept Dundee colour images as visible channel
  • retain image RGB rather than monochrome conversion
  • Enhanced support GOES-13 Dundee data
  • Offer to correct wrong user-defined path in Browse EUMETCast function
  • Early support for MTSAT-2 over EUMETCast
  • accept background-msg-mt2.bmp/jpg as background image
  • add to browse EUMETCast function
  • and to the satllite name annotation
  • some support in World View
  • some support for Dundee images