Supports NOAA L1B (LAC, GAC, HRPT) file format
Ortographic and many other selectable projections
Export to L1B or WiNRADiO proprietary file
Save to common image file formats
Separate channel viewer
Highly configurable RGB mixer
NOAA contrast enhancement products
Vegetation Index (NDVI) products
Land Surface Temperature products
Sea Surface Temperature products
Selectable reference datum
Noise reduction
Supports multi-processor systems

The WR-WSDA-420 is able to generate various data products such as Sea Surface Temperature (SST), Land Surface Temperature (LST), Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI) and many others.

The Channel Viewer shows the intensity of the selected channel only. The Channel 4 Temperature product shows the brightness temperature using Channel 4 data only, with any pixel above 0°C rejected. For temperature based products, various checks are performed on the data to exclude cloud-contaminated pixels from the image.

The RGB Mixer provides two variations of mixing - a Channel-to-Color technique and a Color-to-Channel technique. Using the first method, the channels to be used in the mixing process are allocated to the three primary colors, while in the second method, each channel to be used in the mixing process can be allocated a unique color. A color palette is provided from which a custom color can be created by visually or numerically blending the intensities of red, green and blue, as well as mixing values for hue, saturation and luminosity. Any RGB Mixer configuration can be stored with a given name for quick and easy retrieval and repeated usage.

Several image handling tools are provided, most of which are located on a tool bar above the image for quick access. Viewing tools like Zoom, Pan, Image Flip and Map Align, together with informative tools such as Distance Measurement, Lat/Long Grid, Geographic Boundaries, Colour Histogram and Cursor Position Info facilitate smooth and effortless image analysis. These are complemented by various image refinement tools performing functions such as histogram equalization, noise reduction, interpolation of missing lines and image resampling.

The application also provides facilities to compensate for inaccuracies in the input data. Inaccurate time stamps contained in HRPT data lines caused by drifts in satellite real time clock are catered for by either manually entering the time shift required for correction, if known, or by simply specifying the location of the TBUS bulletin file for the particular satellite and date of the recorded data. Also, if the data stream was recorded using known stale TLE data elements, this can be remedied by specifying an external file containing fresh TLE data elements.

The application ingests and exports the data in NOAA L1B (HRPT) or WiNRADiO proprietary file format, while images can be saved to BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF and TIF files. Images can be also printed with the option to scale, position and rotate the image from within the application.