Meteosat Second Generation Data Retriever License

March 2005

Parts of MSG Data Retriever are licensed. Using the software means that you agree and comply to the limitations of use of the software as specified in this document.

Any use of the SEVIRI data received at ITC and/or any use of MSG Data Retriever, in publications or presentations, needs to be accompanied with the following statement:
"This data was processed with MSG Data Retriever (copyright ITC YEAR). MSG Data Retriever incorporates Wavelet decompression software (copyright EUMETSAT YEAR). The data is copyrighted by EUMETSAT YEAR", where YEAR should be replaced by the appropriate year, e.g. 2005.

 

Limitations of use of the MSG Data Retriever

MSG Data Retriever is protected under Dutch Copyright Law and International Treaty. You may use the software to process SERVIRI L1.5 data. You may copy the software to any system within ITC. You may not copy the software to any source outside ITC.

The MSG Data Retriever consists of a graphical user interface, GDAL_translate, GDALwarp and a wavelet decompression library. GDAL_translate and GDALwarp are open source applications. They are developed by external programmers. Therefore ITC has no direct control over the output files generated by these programs.

 

The wavelet decompression library is copyrighted software (a licence can be obtained from EUMETSAT). Currently ITC is licensed to use this library for the decompression of SEVIRI data for education and research only. Therefore it is not allowed use the MSG Data Retriever software for other purposes than education and research, nor to distribute the software outside ITC.

You acknowledge that the MSG Data Retriever may not satisfy all your requirements or be free from defects. No warranty conditions apply nor is ITC liable to you for actual damages for any cause whatsoever.

Limitations of use of Meteosat data

ITC receives the Meteosat data under an Educational/Research license from KNMI (Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute) which is the national license agency in the Netherlands for EUMETSAT. The data can only be used by ITC staff and students for education or research. This excludes the use of the data for any commercial purposes. Questions related to the data distrubution in ITC can be send to Gerard Reinink (reinink@itc.nl)


Credits

Bas Retsios (GSD), Jan Hendrikse (GSD), Ambro Gieske (WRS), Boudewijn van Leeuwen (GTS), Ben Maathuis (WRS)
 
Support

MSG Data Retriever comes without any formal way of support. However, for questions directly related to the software you can contact Bas Retsions (retsios@itc.nl), and for other information contact Boudewijn van Leeuwen (leeuwen@itc.nl)