geostationary satellite data

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Peter Pearson
<pkpearson at nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> The file is 65274016 bytes long.  You claim the dimensions are
> 9896 x 3298, but that comes out to half that number (32637008), so I'll
> bet the real dimensions are 9896 x 6596, with one byte per pixel.
> I think this image format is called "raw".

It could be 16 bits per pixel. Without knowing a lot more about the
source of the image and its format, it's hard to say with any
certainty.

ChrisA