Unpacking PCAP files containing LOW-CBF visibility data

The vis-data-unpacker tool can be used to unpack a PCAP file containing LOW-CBF visibility data captured by a CNIC. It is able to write the unpacked data and metadata to .zarr and .csv files respectively.

Tip

The command-line tools are installed automatically when using Poetry, see Using Poetry.

Usage

$ vis-data-unpacker -h
usage: vis-data-unpacker [-h] [--metadata-output path/to/unpacked/metadata.csv] [--data-output path/to/unpacked/data.zarr] [-v] pcap_file_path

positional arguments:
  pcap_file_path        Path to a PCAP file containing visibility data

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --metadata-output path/to/unpacked/metadata.csv
                        When this option is supplied, the unpacked metadata is written to the target file in CSV format.
  --data-output path/to/unpacked/data.zarr
                        When this option is supplied, the unpacked data is written to the target file in .zarr format.
  -v, --verbose