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Python tools for reading waveform and geolocated elevation data from the ESA CryoSat-2 mission and writing to HDF5

• How to access CryoSat-2 data <https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/-/how-to-access-cryosat-data-6842>_
• CryoSat-2 Products Overview <https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/-/products-overview-6975>_
• CryoSat-2 Products Handbook <https://earth.esa.int/documents/10174/125272/CryoSat_Product_Handbook>_
• CryoSat-2 Geographical Mode Masks <https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/-/geographical-mode-mask-7107>_
• CryoSat-2 Baseline C Improvements <https://earth.esa.int/documents/10174/1773005/C2-Evolution-BaselineC-Level2-V3>_
• CryoSat-2 Baseline D Improvements <https://earth.esa.int/documents/10174/1773005/CryoSat-Baseline-D-Evolutions.pdf>_

Dependencies ############

• numpy: Scientific Computing Tools For Python <https://numpy.org>_
• scipy: Scientific Tools for Python <https://docs.scipy.org/doc//>_
• h5py: Python interface for Hierarchal Data Format 5 (HDF5) <http://h5py.org>_
• netCDF4: Python interface to the netCDF C library <https://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/netCDF4/index.html>_
• gdal: Pythonic interface to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL>_
• shapely: PostGIS-ish operations outside a database context for Python <http://toblerity.org/shapely/index.html>_
• fiona: Python wrapper for vector data access functions from the OGR library <https://fiona.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual.html>_
• geopandas: Python tools for geographic data <http://geopandas.readthedocs.io/>_
• pyproj: Python interface to PROJ library <https://pypi.org/project/pyproj/>_
• future: Compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3 <http://python-future.org/>_
• lxml: processing XML and HTML in Python <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml>_

Download ########

| The program homepage is: | https://github.com/tsutterley/read-cryosat-2 | A zip archive of the latest version is available directly at: | https://github.com/tsutterley/read-cryosat-2/archive/main.zip | Incorporated into the UW-APL pointCollection utilities at: | https://github.com/SmithB/pointCollection

Disclaimer ##########

This project contains work and contributions from the scientific community <./CONTRIBUTORS.rst>_. This program is not sponsored or maintained by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), the European Space Agency (ESA) or NASA. It is provided here for your convenience but with no guarantees whatsoever.