MSG Toolbox

Support for the MSG Toolbox has been discontinued

The toolbox may not support products released after 2017

Current version: 2.0, released on 2017-10-09

Description

MSG Toolbox is a free software intended to prepare operational LSA-SAF products for further analysis and use in GIS and Remote Sensing software.

Purpose and limitations

A variety of operational products, derived from MSG, are produced by the LSA-SAF partners and distributed via the web and FTP sites as well as by the EUMETCast satellite broadcast. The distributed products are usually in the form of bz2 compressed archives that consist of one or more data files in HDF5 format.

MSG Toolbox is a software intended to prepare operational LSA-SAF products for further analysis and use in GIS and Remote Sensing software, in particular by preparing temporal composites (e.g. deriving daily values from 15min/30min/hourly products) and/or by remapping to geographic lat/lon coordinate system and also by reformatting to more widely used file formats such as IDL-ENVI, GeoTIFF or ILWIS.

After LSA SAF-MSG system upgrade (November 2015) LSA SAF products can be found both in 4 geographical regions (Euro, NAfr, SAfr, SAme) and/or on one single area covering the 4 regions (MSG-Disk) (further details can be found at LSA SAF NEWS LSA SAF - MSG System Upgrade (2015/10/27 11:32). MSG Toolbox v2.0 is able to process any of these files.

Envisaged users

The utility is intended for all users of operational LSA-SAF products derived from Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), in particular those facing issues with reading or preparing the products for further processing, analysis or visualization. As it facilitates the integration into other GIS and Remote Sensing (RS) software, it is recommended that users have at least a basic understanding of GIS or Remote Sensing techniques.

Quick links

Version Windows Documentation Ancillary
2.0 Icon MSG Toolbox software (175.1 MB)
 275MB (decompressed).		 User manual
Release notes for v2.0 		Icon Reference grids and land-sea mask (82.0 MB)
Updated: 2017-10-09

 

Installation

MSG Toolbox requires a Java virtual machine (JVM) to run. Please download a copy of Java, for instance Oracle's Java and install that first.

To install the MSG Toolbox, download a copy of the software above. Open the self-extracting archive and unzip it to a folder, e.g. c:\MSGToolbox. Then launch the .jar or .bat file there.

While the ancillary reference grids are included in the software installation, they may be updated separately in future and can thus be downloaded independently.

For more details, please consult the user manual. Section 1.3 provides contact details for further support.