CloudSat and CALIPSO are NASA, resp. joint NASA and CNES polar-orbiting Earth observation satellites. CloudSat carries a millimetre-wave radar for observation of clouds. CALIPSO carries a visible and infrared polarisation-sensitive lidar for observation of aerosols and ice-phase clouds. Data from these satellites are distributed in the form of HDF4 and HDF-EOS2 product files. We introduce a software tool ccplot capable of visualising several data sets from the CloudSat 2B-GEOPROF, CALIPSO Lidar L1B Profiles, CALIPSO Lidar L2 Cloud Layer and Aqua MODIS L1B products. ccplot is a scriptable, unix command-line tool. We released ccplot on the Internet under the open-source-compatible BSD license.
Thesis
Visualising Data from CloudSat and CALIPSO Satellites
Supervisors: Ivan Bašták-Ďurán1
1Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract
- School:
- Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Archive:
- Zenodo
- DOI:
- 10.5281/zenodo.3764234
- Submitted:
- 11 June 2010
- Defended:
- 01 July 2010
- Published:
- 01 July 2010
- License:
- Open access / Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
BibTeX:
@thesis{kuma2010,
school={Comenius University},
address={Bratislava, Slovakia},
year={2010},
doi={10.5281/zenodo.3764234},
url={https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3764234},
author={Kuma, Peter},
title={Visualising Data from CloudSat and CALIPSO Satellites}
}
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