Citation Information¶
References¶
This software is developed with the goal of supporting science applications for satellite radar altimetry. The programs included in this software have contributed most recently to the following work:
E. Ciracì, I. Velicogna and T. C. Sutterley. “Mass Balance of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian High Arctic, Using Time-Variable Gravity from GRACE and Altimetry Data from ICESat and CryoSat-2”. Remote Sensing, 10(11): 1817, 2018. doi:10.3390/rs10111817
Contributors¶
Development¶
This is an open source project. We welcome any help in maintaining and developing the software and documentation. Anyone at any career stage and with any level of coding experience can contribute. Please see the Contribution Guidelines for more information.
Problem Reports¶
If you have found a problem in this software, or you would like to suggest an improvement or modification, please submit a GitHub issue and we will get back to you.
Dependencies¶
This software is also dependent on other commonly used Python packages:
- numpy: Scientific Computing Tools For Python
- scipy: Scientific Tools for Python
- h5py: Python interface for Hierarchal Data Format 5 (HDF5)
- netCDF4: Python interface to the netCDF C library
- gdal: Pythonic interface to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)
- shapely: PostGIS-ish operations outside a database context for Python
- fiona: Python wrapper for vector data access functions from the OGR library
- geopandas: Python tools for geographic data
- pyproj: Python interface to PROJ library
- future: Compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3
- lxml: processing XML and HTML in Python
Disclaimer¶
This package includes software developed at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (UW-APL). It is not sponsored or maintained by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), the European Space Agency (ESA) or NASA.