Product Format: INSAT-3DR Data will be available in CF (Climate and Forecasting) Convention version 1.6 Complaint HDF-5 format and KML (Keyhole Markup Language) for (Fire and Smoke). Providing data products in CF Complaint formats gives advantage to the users to open the products in following software makes it compatible with following freely available COTS packages:
- Ferret (v6.9) (Raster and Point Datasets) http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/Ferret/
- Grads v2.0.a8+ (Supports Gridded Products: L2G and L3G) http://www.iges.org/grads/
- MIAS (Meteorological Image Analysis Software) All Products (Indigenously Developed by SAC, ISRO)
- IDV (Integrated Data Viewer) 4.1+ (All Products) unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv
- McIDAS-V (Man Computer Interaction Data Access System) v1.3 (All Products) ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/software/v
- HDFView 2.9 (All Products) http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/java/hdfview/
- NetCDF toolsUI.jar v4.3.22 (All Products) unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java
- Panoply v2.9.4 All Raster Products http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/
- Climate Data Operators (CDO) 1.6.4 rc1 (Raster Products) https://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo
- NCAR Command Language 6.0.0 (Raster Products) ncl.ucar.edu/
- Quantum GIS 2.0.1 (as layer served by WMS) qgis.org
- THOR (Raster Products) http://pps.gsfc.nasa.gov/THOR/release.html
- ncBrowse v1.6.7 (Raster Products) ftp://ftp.epic.noaa.gov/java/ncBrowse/install.htm
Data Volume: Following Tables 5(a) & (b) shows the approximate volumes of the data products from INSAT-3DR Imager and Sounder, respectively. These volumes may change from time to time depending upon the addition/removal of a few products.
Data Volumes : INSAT-3D IMAGER
| Types of Data Product | Data Volume per day |
| L1B | 4.848 GB |
| L02 (Sector) | 2.88 GB |
| IMAGER quantitative products | 10 GB |
| Total | 73 GB |
Data Volumes : INSAT-3D SOUNDER
| Types of Data Product | Data Volume per day |
| L1B | 9.3 MB |
| SOUNDER quantitative products | 200 MB |
| Total | 500 MB |