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Dartcom Ku-Band EUMETCast System with additional antenna for redundancy
Dartcom Ku-Band EUMETCast System with additional antenna for redundancy

Components

  • Antenna – various sizes available to suit different locations, or customers can source their own locally.
  • Receiver – various options available to suit different services.
  • Ingest and visualisation PCs – running Dartcom Geostationary Ingester and Dartcom iDAP/MacroPro software. For a turnkey solution Dartcom can supply PCs fully set-up and tested, or customers can supply their own PCs if desired.

Dartcom can also provide on-site installation and training services.

Features

  • Fully automatic reception, decryption, decompression, archiving, output and processing.
  • Multi-threaded software allowing simultaneous ingest from multiple services and accelerated processing.
  • Proven, robust, reliable hardware and software, with installations all over the world in all climates, temperatures and environments.
  • Comprehensive hardware and software diagnostics at all levels, with on-screen and email alarms, and full logging if required.
  • Full technical support and regular software updates.

Software

  • Dartcom Geostationary Ingester – provides automatic ingest, archiving and output of images and other data.
  • Dartcom iDAP – provides a wide range of image manipulation and processing facilities such as animation, enhancement, RGB products, palette products, reprojection, masking, printing, archiving and exporting to third-party file formats.
  • Dartcom MacroPro – automates the image processing facilities provided by iDAP, with full logging and alarms.

Ku-Band Hardware

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