Note that this document only describes the NOAA Level 1b format as pertaining to full HRPT data for the NOAA A to J satellite series. Byte sex is big-endian. Introduction A NOAA Level 1b format file consists of a set of records of size 14800 bytes. The first record is the file header, subsequent records each containing one scan line of HRPT data. Before the header record is one TBM record of size 122 bytes.
Cartesian elements follow.
Data record Bytes Offset Contents 2 bytes 0 Scan line number. Sampled every 40 points starting at point 25. See pages 3.4 also extensions. Sampled every 40 points starting at point 25.