IPOPP 2.5 installation

01 Aug 2016

IPOPP (the International Polar Orbiter Processing Package) is a free software used to process raw hdf satellite data from Suomi National Polar orbiting Partnership(SNPP), Aqua, and Terra missions. It generate tiff and png files contains sst, chlor_a, crefl_rgb files form those raw data.

How to install IPOPP

To install ipopp, you can follow the following steps:

1. Create user ipopp.
2. Download ipopp from nasa.
3. You need to register an account with nasa
4. Download downloader_ipopp_2.5.sh
5. Run it on your linux machine, make sure you have enough space.
6. Uncompress DRL-IPOPP_2.5.tar.gz to ~/IPOPP of ipopp user.
7. Run system_test.sh in ~/IPOPP, make sure all tests are passed except the database test. IPOPP 2.5 includes standalone mariadb and do not required pre-installed database.
8. Run install_ipopp.sh

Detailed Analysis of IPOPP Installation

To learn how ipopp works, I started with understanding ipopp installations. Here is a picture of the ipopp installation procedures started after you fire the script install_ipopp.sh