User's Guide

PUSHNOA

Transfer Level-1b AVHRR imagery to a NOAA server

Function:

PUSHNOA will transfer Level-1b AVHRR images to a NOAA server, thereby eliminating the need to create a NOAA archive tape.

Parameters:

Example:

  1. LAS> pushnoa

    PUSHNOA will process all of the Level-0 images found in the subdirectory [.noa.sfl] of ADAPSARC. A Level-1b copy of each image found in this directory will be made, and transferred to the primary NOAA server (in the appropriate remote directory). If these transfers fail, the Level-1b images will be transferred to the secondary NOAA server (in the appropriate remote directory). Upon successful transfer, the images will be deleted from disk. Error diagnostics and processing messages will be logged in 'pushnoa;log' within ADAPSLOG.

Description/Algorithm:

PUSHNOA determines the name of the directory containing the images to be transferred ([.noa.sfl] subdirectory within ADAPSARC). PUSHL1B is then called to process all of the images within that directory (refer to the PUSHL1B module for more information). Error diagnostics and processing messages will be logged in 'pushnoa;log' within ADAPSLOG.

Nonfatal Error Message:

    None.

Fatal Error Messages:

  1. [pushnoa-fatal] Fatal error encountered

    A fatal error was encountered during processing. The error message displayed immediately preceding this message is the specific error encountered.

  2. [pushnoa-stop] Error determining stop file name

    An error was encountered while determining the name of the stop file. Ensure that ADAPSTABLES has been defined.

  3. [archive-abort] User aborted ARCHIVE

    ARCHIVE was aborted by the user.

User Notes:

  1. The file 'pushnoa;stop' within ADAPSTABLES serves as a signal to stop this process. This file is typically generated by running ADAPSTOP.

  2. This module expects the files 'password.server1' and 'password.server2' to exist in the ADAPSTABLES directory. The contents of these files is expected to be:

    "USER PASSWORD SERVER DIRECTORY"

    where:

       USER       is the user id on the remote server
       PASSWORD   is the password of the user on the
                  remote server
       SERVER     is the IP address of the remote server
       DIRECTORY  is the appropriate directory on the remote
                  server