ICESat-2 to GIS conversion utilities
Code for converting ICESat-2 (ATL08) .h5 data into GIS-compatible points and polylines.
Installation
pip install nsidc-icesat2gis
Usage
nsidc-icesat2gis is primarily intended to be used programmatically as a Python
library:
from nsidc.icesat2gis.atl08 import read_points_from_atl08
points_geodataframe = read_points_from_atl08(filepath="/path/to/example/ATL08_20260118035703_05313006_007_01.h5")
A CLI is also available:
$ nsidc-icesat2gis --help
Usage: nsidc-icesat2gis [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
atl08-to-lines Given an ATL08 hdf5 as input, output a file...
atl08-to-lines-parquet Given an ATL08 hdf5 as input, output a file...
atl08-to-points Given an ATL08 hdf5 as input, output a file...
lines-in-dir Produce parquet files containing ATL08 lines...
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Level of Support
This repository is not actively supported by NSIDC but we welcome issue submissions and pull requests in order to foster community contribution.
See the LICENSE for details on permissions and warranties. Please contact nsidc@nsidc.org for more information.
Credit
This content was developed by the National Snow and Ice Data Center with funding from multiple sources.
2 maintainers
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