py-neonUtilities 0.4.0

A native python wrapper for the NEON ecological database api

Py-NEONutilities

This project is a heavy work in progress to write a native python wrapper for the NEON data platform. It aims to provide the functionality of the NEONutilities R package without the overhead of having to manage rpy.

Progress

• Observational data
  • Download data zips
  • Table stacking
  • Support for READMEs, EML and variables files
• Instrumentals
• AOP/EC data
• package for pypi (check the pypi branch)

You can install this package from pypi with pip install py-neonUtils

The neonUtilities.NeonObservational.NeonObservational class contains the primary utilities to download and stack data.

An example of general usage:

from neonUtilities.NeonObservational import NeonObservational
import pandas as pd

neonobj = NeonObservational(dpID="DP1.10003.001", site=["WOOD"], dates=["2015-07","2017-07"], package="basic")
#Download two specific basic month-chunks from the WOOD site for DP1.10003.001

neonobj.download()
neonobj.stackByTable()
df = neonobj.to_pandas()

This modules contains some improvements over the original R module. You can pass a 2-dimensional array to dates to download several ranges of month-chunk data. You can also pass the zip directory name to stackByTable to use an existing download similarly to the R package.