Citation Information

References

This software consists of extension routines for the set of pointCollection tools. This software is developed with the goal of supporting science applications for the NASA ICESat-2 mission. This work was initially supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by Universities Space Research Association under contract with NASA. This work is developed in conjunction with other ICESat-2 projects.

The programs included in this software have contributed most recently to the following work:

T. C. Sutterley, T. Markus, T. A. Neumann, M. R. van den Broeke, J. M. van Wessem, and S. R. M. Ligtenberg, “Antarctic ice shelf thickness change from multimission lidar mapping”, The Cryosphere, 13, 1801–1817, (2019). doi:tc-13-1801-2019

Contributors

• Daniel Shapero (University of Washington)

• Ben Smith (University of Washington)

• Tyler Sutterley (University of Washington)

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 these programs, 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:

• dateutil: powerful extensions to datetime

• fiona: Python wrapper for vector data access functions from the OGR library

• gdal: Pythonic interface to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)

• h5py: Python interface for Hierarchal Data Format 5 (HDF5)

• lxml: processing XML and HTML in Python

• matplotlib: Python 2D plotting library

• netCDF4: Python interface to the netCDF C library

• numpy: Scientific Computing Tools For Python

• pyproj: Python interface to PROJ library

• scipy: Scientific Tools for Python

• shapely: PostGIS-ish operations outside a database context for Python

• timescale: Python tools for time and astronomical calculations

Disclaimer

This package includes software developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (UW-APL).