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Visualising Data from CloudSat and CALIPSO Satellites

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Visualising Data from CloudSat and CALIPSO Satellites

This repository contains source files of the bachelor's thesis Visualising Data from CloudSat and CALIPSO Satellites.

School: Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Supervisor: Mgr. Ivan Bašták Ďurán, PhD.
Defended: 1 July 2010
Archive: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3764234

Abstract

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.

Keywords: CloudSat, CALIPSO, MODIS, A-Train, HDF4, HDF-EOS2, ccplot, plot, visualization

License

Copyright © 2010 Peter Kuma. The text of the thesis is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This applies to the following files:

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    • caliop.pdf
    • scattering.pdf

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