HimawariCast System 
Features
HimawariCast antenna
Components
- Antenna – various sizes available to suit different locations, or customers can source their own locally.
- Receiver – DVB-S2 receiver with IP output and KenCast software.
- Ingest and visualisation PC – 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 for optimum timeliness 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.