Software readers and utilities for the BYU-MERS "SIR" image format
in various languages.

The BYU-MERS "sir" image file format was developed by the Brigham Young
University (BYU) Microwave Earth Remote Sensing (MERS) research group
in the 1990's to store scatterometer images of the earth along with the
information required to earth-locate the image pixels.

Note that in standard BYU sir files the pixel addresses run from 1 
to N rather than than from 0 to N-1.  Pixel (1,1) is in the lower 
left of the image.  For an input (1,1) the Lat,Lon values for 
correspond to the lower-left corner of the (1,1) pixel.

In a standard BYU sir file, the file header (first 512 bytes)
store meta information about the file, including the projection
and transformation information.  The readers in the subdirectories
are designed to implement pixel to lat/lon and the reverse as
well as read and write sir files.

Source code for read/writing and analyzing sir files is available in
c, fortran (several flavors), c++, matlab, idl, and python.

On standard linux machines, use "make" to create library and compile 
test programs.

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Dr. David G. Long                                           long@ee.byu.edu
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.  voice: (801) 422-4383
Director, BYU Center for Remote Sensing                 fax: (801) 422-0201
450 Engineering Building, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah    84602

BYU Microwave Earth Remote Sensing (MERS) Lab home page:   www.mers.byu.edu
BYU Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder web page:       www.scp.byu.edu

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Last revised:  18 Oct 2022  DGL
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