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A Linux toolkit for handling signals over the automatic picture
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transmission (APT) protocol.
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## Intro to Automatic Picture Transmission
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Automatic picture transmission (APT) is an analog image transmission format
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developed for use on weather satellites in the 1960s. While only three
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modern satellites, NOAA 15, NOAA 18, and NOAA 19, transmit on the APT
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protocol, building a reception station is cheap and simple. The images can
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be quite high qualitythey natively have a resolution of
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4 km/px. It is reasonable to expect at least one good-quality satellite
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pass (and, thereby, opportunity for image downlink) per day.
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