SDI GVAR Events

As described in the SDI Event Notification System section of Chapter 1, the SDI ingestor allows automated event notifications via email, writing to a file, or running a program or script.

Image Start

The Image Start event is generated any time the GVAR ingestor sees a new image and creates an index file. The body of the email for this event is in the following format:

Where:

index_file_name	is the name of the index file; see GVAR Index File Format for a complete description of the format of this file name
bele	is the beginning element of this image
eele	is the ending element of this image
bline	is the beginning line of this image
eline	is the ending line of this image

Sounder Start

The Sounder Start event is generated any time the GVAR sounder decoder detects the start of a new sounder image and is creating a new McIDAS AREA file. The body of the email for this event is in the following format:

Where:

SOI	indicates this is a sounder start of image
bline	is the beginning detector scan line in sounder image (see Note below)
nline	is the number of detector scan lines in sounder image (see Note below)
bele	is the beginning element of sounder image
nele	is the number of elements in sounder image
jday	is the nominal julian day (yyddd) of sounder image
time	is the nominal time (hhmmss) of sounder image
ss	is the McIDAS sensor source number of satellite
bscan	is the beginning scan number of sounder image
escan	is the ending scan number of sounder image
area	is the McIDAS AREA number of decoded sounder image

Sounder End

The Sounder End event is generated any time the GVAR sounder decoder finishes the decoding of a sounder image. The body of the email for this event is in the following format:

Where:

EOI	indicates this is a sounder end of image
area	is the McIDAS AREA number if decoded sounder image