Setup and Installation

Presently read-cryosat-2 is only available for use as a GitHub repository. The contents of the repository can be download as a zipped file or cloned. To use this repository, please fork into your own account and then clone onto your system.

git clone https://github.com/tsutterley/read-cryosat-2.git

Dependencies

read-cryosat-2 is dependent on some open source programs:

• gdal
• pyproj
• HDF5
• netCDF

The version of GDAL used within read-cryosat-2 will match the version of the installed C program. The path to the C program that will be used with read-cryosat-2 is given by:

gdal-config --datadir

The read-cryosat-2 installation uses the gdal-config routines to set the GDAL package version.

Installation

Can then install using setuptools

python3 setup.py install

or pip

python3 -m pip install --user .

Alternatively can install the cryosat_toolkit utilities from GitHub with pip

python3 -m pip install --user git+https://github.com/tsutterley/read-cryosat-2.git

Executable versions of this repository can also be tested using Binder and Pangeo.