Beginning Radio Communications: Radio Projects and Theory

© Alex Wulff 2019

A. WulffBeginning Radio Communicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5302-1_4

4. Project: Satellite Imagery

Alex Wulff¹ 

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Cambridge, MA, USA

 

In this chapter, we’ll use a software-defined radio to receive image data from NOAA weather satellites flying overhead and then render this data into a real image. Your newfound knowledge of radio theory will be plenty sufficient for you to understand what’s happening behind the scenes. You’ll need a laptop for this chapter, or a desktop very close to a window, as actually capturing data from the satellites must be done outside. Figure 4-1 shows what the final image from a satellite will look like.

Figure 4-1

A real image pulled from NOAA weather satellites; yours will look similar!

Software-Defined ...