To develop a cloud effective radius (CER) and optical thickness (COT) retrieval framework using python; scikit-learn and TensorFlow: An example of application with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA's Terra & Aqua satellites.
10-04-2020: update python code to download the ice and liquid reflectance libraries
09-15-2020: start the project
git clone https://github.com/benjamin-hg-marchant/deep-inversion.git
Read the doc
url = 'https://atmosphere-imager.gsfc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/ModAtmo/resources/modis_c6_luts.tar.gz'
downloaded_filename = 'modis_c6_luts.tar.gz'
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, downloaded_filename)
# Unzip .tar.gz
# Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30887979/i-want-to-create-a-script-for-unzip-tar-gz-file-via-python
fname = 'modis_c6_luts.tar.gz'
if fname.endswith("tar.gz"):
tar = tarfile.open(fname, "r:gz")
tar.extractall()
tar.close()