NOAA-DSB

A student project for the P&S Software Defined Radio @ ETH Zurich

NOAA-DSB is a satellite receiver, demodulator and decoder for the DSB signal of NOAA weather satellites.

Further Information is available here:

• Information Sheet
• Presentation

The Team

Philip Wiese (ETHZ Bsc ETIT)
Antenna Design, Python - Xeratec

Julian Merkhover (ETHZ Bsc ETIT)
Python - julianmer

Sevrin Mathys (ETHZ Bsc ETIT)
GnuRadio, Python - SevyRide

Usage

Demodulate Raw I/Q audio from gqrx or similar programs

$ python2.7 src/demodulator/noaa_demodulate.py -f recordings/samples/POES_56k250.raw -r 56250

Extract TIP frames

$ python src/decoder/noaa_decode.py -f demod.raw -v 1

Decode TIP frames

TODO

Dependencies

The project has the following dependencies, make sure you have them all installed:

• Python2.7
• Python3
• tqdm (Python3)
• gnuradio
• SciPy

ToDo

• Telemetry Decoder
• Documentation

Links for Developer

• Live WebSDR vom NOAA Frequenzbereich
• About SEM-2
• NOAA / POES Space Environment Monitor

Tutorials

• NOAA Weather Satellite Reception with GNU Radio and USRP
• NOAA POES TIP Demodulation
• Decoding the NOAA Weather Satellite Telemetry Beacons