Jakub has done an excellent job receiving the LRPT data stream and decoding it.
Click here to visit his website.
I must thank him for the supply of data for my own initial investigations into LRPT.
Many thanks also to Mike for his supply of SDR data for the software demodulator experiments.
You can visit Mike's satellite telemetry pages here .

First decoded image from Jakub's data (thanks again)

First decoded image from my locally received data

First decoded images from Mike's SDR data

The Meteor LRPT signal is currently (Dec '09 - Jan '10) not in a stable, well publicised format, operating to any
regular schedule. It must be noted that this is a first-of-its-kind signal source from a new satellite that was only
launched in September 2009. Therefore, any information provided on this website is only of 'curiosity' value - found by
casual experiment, and definitely NOT the absolute truth, or definitive specification by any stretch of the imagination!

Getting at the Meteor LRPT imagery is like the children's game of "pass the parcel" (where a prize or treat is wrapped
in many layers of paper etc (- google it, if unfamiliar... ) The reception itself involves quite a few steps to recover the
'native' raw data, the 'noughts and ones' as it were.
From here, you then start to peel away the layers of the CCSDS protocol stack. This 'packetized' data delivery scheme
pops out a data stream which is now of a proprietry format, as designed by the satellite manufacturer. While the whole
process can appear daunting, each step on its own is quite simple to understand, or at least utilise available tools to
deal with.

Reception Chain

CCSDS Processing

Meteor M N1 Imagery Data Format


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