4.9. FCI L1c NetCDF Reader

The FCI Level 1c Reader operates on EUMETSAT Level 1c NetCDF files from the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) instrument. The FCI L1c reader works off of the input filenames to determine if a file is supported by Geo2Grid. Files usually have the following naming scheme:

W_XX-EUMETSAT-Darmstadt,IMG+SAT,MTI1+FCI-1C-RRAD-FDHSI-FD--CHK-BODY---NC4E_C_EUMT_20170920115515_GTT_DEV_20170920115008_20170920115015_N__T_0072_0001.nc

The FCI L1c reader supports all instrument spectral bands, identified in Geo2Grid as the products shown in the table below. The reader can be provided to the main geo2grid.sh script using the -r option and the reader name fci_l1c_nc.

Product Name

Description

vis_04

0.44um Reflectance Band

vis_05

0.51um Reflectance Band

vis_06

0.64um Reflectance Band

vis_08

0.86um Reflectance Band

vis_09

0.91um Reflectance Band

nir_13

1.3um Near-IR Reflectance Band

nir_16

1.6um Near-IR Reflectance Band

nir_22

2.2um Near-IR Reflectance Band

ir_38

3.8um Brightness Temperature Band

wv_63

6.3um Water Vapor Brightness Temperature Band

wv_73

7.3um Water Vapor Brightness Temperature Band

ir_87

8.7um Brightness Temperature Band

ir_97

9.7um Brightness Temperature Band

ir_105

10.5um Brightness Temperature Band

ir_123

12.3um Brightness Temperature Band

ir_133

13.3um Brightness Temperature Band

true_color

Ratio sharpened rayleigh corrected true color

natural_color

Ratio sharpened corrected natural color

4.9.1. Command Line Usage

usage: geo2grid.sh -r fci_l1c_nc -w <writer> [-h] [--upper-right-corner UPPER_RIGHT_CORNER]

4.9.1.1. FCI L1c NetCDF Reader Loading

--upper-right-corner

Orientation of the data. Data in files is ‘SE’ for South-East which is upside down from the traditional ‘north is up’. This argument defaults to ‘NE’ for North-East and produces the traditional north-up image orientation.

Default: “NE”

Examples:

geo2grid.sh -r fci_l1c_nc -h

geo2grid.sh -r fci_l1c_nc -w geotiff --list-products -f /data/mtg/fci

geo2grid.sh -r fci_l1c_nc -w geotiff --num-workers 8 -f /data/mtg/fci

geo2grid.sh -r fci_l1c_nc -w geotiff -p vis_04 vis_05 vis_06 vis_08 nir_13 nir_16 true_color -f *_N_JLS_C_0072*.nc

geo2grid.sh -r fci_l1c_nc -w geotiff --ll-bbox 10 -15 40 10 -f /fci_data