Cipher SoftBUFR is a universal encoding/decoding library of C++ classes for the table-driven binary code BUFR. In this context, universal means that it is not restricted to particular types of BUFR message.

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General Cipher features

Platforms - Cipher SoftBUFR runs on Linux and several other Unix environments and also on Microsoft Windows 95/98/.../XP.

Language. As the native language of the library is C++, the full functionality is available to programs written in C/C++.

Current SoftBUFR version - The current version is 4.2.0, released in May 2009.

BUFR editions - For encoding, SoftBUFR 4.x supports BUFR editions 3 and 4, and it can decode messages conforming to editions 1 or 2 as well.

The SoftBUFR package includes:

• Tutorial with practical examples
• Documentation in HTML format
• WMO BUFR tables, versions 7 to 13. As version 7 of WMO BUFR tables is backwards compatible, it can be used to decode messages encoded with older versions of WMO standard tables.
• One year of free maintenance and support

Custom software and consultancy. We can provide custom software and consultancy in the area of environmental data processing, and in particular in the area of meteorological codes.

Demo - BUFRtool, also member of the Cipher series, is a free demo program based on SoftBUFR. It can give you a flavour of how SoftBUFR works, or it might even be the solution you are looking for!