BSD Ports

comms/apitran g20180926_8 DragonFly

Toolkit to handle the automatic picture transmission protocol

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv3
Categories
astro, comms, hamradio, python
Package size
40478.4 KiB, 102331.8 KiB installed

Description

A Linux toolkit for handling signals over the automatic picture transmission (APT) protocol.

## Intro to Automatic Picture Transmission Automatic picture transmission (APT) is an analog image transmission format developed for use on weather satellites in the 1960s. While only three modern satellites, NOAA 15, NOAA 18, and NOAA 19, transmit on the APT protocol, building a reception station is cheap and simple. The images can be quite high qualitythey natively have a resolution of 4 km/px. It is reasonable to expect at least one good-quality satellite pass (and, thereby, opportunity for image downlink) per day.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlycomms/apitrang20180926_8
FreeBSDcomms/apitrang20180926_11

Install

Binary package:

pkg install py311-apitran

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/comms/apitran && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 7

No port depends on this one.