SDR application to add color for weather broadcasting

SDR application to add color for weather broadcasting

电子科技大学格拉斯哥学院2017200602002谢鑫
In the freshman seminar, we talked about how to receive cloud images with SDR. First of all, the definition of software-defined radio. SDR is a radio communication system where components that have been traditionally implemented in hardware (e.g. mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, detectors, etc.) are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or embedded system.

The operating principle is that the ideal receiver scheme would be to attach an analog-to-digital converter to an antenna. A digital signal processor would read the converter, and then its software would transform the stream of data from the converter to any other form the application requires.

When I first know about this technique, I believe that it can be used in measure the cloud image which is commonly shown on the weather broadcasting. So what if it is applied on the phone. Adding some colors when we see the recent temperature.
Illustrated by the pictures:

The SDR can receive signals from the satellite and naturally receive signals from the NOAA weather satellite. A brief introduction to NOAA. NOAA is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has numerous meteorological satellites to collect global meteorological data for him. The function of drawing a weather cloud map that we want to show is based on the NOAA satellite and the WXtomlg software.
So I decided to try NOAA to draw my daily weather cloud image. By consulting the Wikipedia, I learn about the procedures:

To set up a NOAA weather satellite receive station you will need:

1. An RTL-SDR dongle working with SDRSharp. (Or other more advanced SDRs such an Airspy)
2. An audio piping method (e.g. VBCable, Virtual Audio Cable or Stereo Mix)
3. A right hand circularly polarized antenna tuned to 137 MHz.
4. Software such as WXtoImg for decoding the APT signal.
5. An LNA (Optional).
   June 2018 Broken WXtoImg Links Update: Note that at the time of this update the WXtoImg website is down, and may never come back as it appears to have been abandoned. The Windows version and some Linux versions of WXtoImg can still be downloaded from archive.org.
   July 2018 Broken WXtoImg Links Update: A fan has put together a clone of the WXtoImg website which contains most download links. It is available at wxtoimgrestored.xyz.
   We will assume you have the RTL-SDR dongle set up and working already. If you have not bought a dongle yet, see the Buy RTL-SDR page for information and the check out the Quickstart Guide for an easy setup routine with SDRSharp. You will also need to have an audio piping method installed and set up. Audio piping will allow the audio from SDRSharp to be passed to a decoding program. You can use either windows stereo mix, VB-cable (free) or virtual audio cable (paid with trial version).

By this procedure by using NOAA, I carry out the final image.

REFFERENCE:
Wikipedia: Automatic Picture Transmission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio