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ICARE developed a variety of tools to help users visualize, analyze and utilize data sets distributed by ICARE.

Source codes are distributed as compressed tar files (.tar.Z or .tar.gz). Use "uncompress" (file .Z) or "gunzip" (file .gz) to uncompress.
For IDL tools, both the source code (.pro) and the compiled version (.sav) are provided. The use of source codes may require a proper IDL licence, while the compiled version can be used through the IDL virtual machine that can be downloaded from the IDL website: www.ittvis.com
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    PARASOL
  • Parasolascii a simple parser for the PARASOL format.
    parasolascii displays the data from the PARASOL binary files in plain text. You specify the data you want to be displayed, in the order you wish, and they will be extracted into columns (separated by tabulations) in this very order. You are then free to redirect the data into the tool of your choice (a plotter, a data filter, or an hand-made program). Of course, calls to parasolascii are scriptable.
  • ANAPOL Visualisation and Analyze of POLDER and PARASOL data through a graphic interface
    authors : Francois-Marie Bréon, Marie-Pierre Moine (LSCE)
    anapol.tar.gz anapol.sav (compiled version)


    POLDER
  • ANAPOL Visualisation and Analyze of POLDER and PARASOL data through a graphic interface
    authors : Francois-Marie Bréon, Marie-Pierre Moine (LSCE)
    anapol.tar.gz anapol.sav (compiled version)
  • Polderascii a simple parser for the POLDER format
    polderascii displays the data from the POLDER binary files in plain text. You specify the data you want to be displayed, in the order you wish, and they will be extracted into columns (separated by tabulations) in this very order. You are then free to redirect the data into the tool of your choice (a plotter, a data filter, or an hand-made program). Of course, calls to polderascii are scriptable.
  • POLDER2-MODIS Visualisation of POLDER2 and MODIS data in coincidence.
    author: Bruno Six (ICARE)
    cmp_pol_mod.pro

    MSG
  • MSG_NATIVE2HDF Extract and save into HDF file IR or VIS MSG data.
    author: Franck Gabarrot (ICARE).
    MSG_NATIVE2HDF.tar.gz
  • Fis2raw a tool to convert the FIS format (from the SATMOS, at Lannion) into a simple, headerless, raw binary file

    The FIS format is a data format provided in particular by the SATMOS Archivage Center, at Lannion (MSG data at Lannion are archived this way). The program fis2raw converts the FIS format into a raw, headerless, binary file. The number of values and their type may be retrieved while performing the conversion.
    fis2raw-0.1.0.tar.gz


    METEOSAT
  • OpenMTP tools Tools to read and visualize OpenMTP data (METEOSAT).
    authors : Antoinette Alias (ICARE), EUMETSAT
    OpenMTPtools.tar
  • Geostat navigation routines for some geostationary satellites (meteosat, goes, msg)
    a set of routines to compute latitudes, longitudes, azimutal and zenithal angles from rows and columns in the satellite grid (and the reverse)
    geostat.tar.gz

    SEVIRI
  • Aeroseviri optical thickness and Angstrom coefficient of aerosols over sea, retrieved from SEVIRI measures
    Aeroseviri is a LSCE/Icare project whose purpose is to provide the scientific community with some aerosol properties (namely, optical thickness and Angstrom coefficient), retrieved from the SEVIRI measures, on a nearly real-time basis (every 15 minutes, the SEVIRI time acquisition).
  • Xrit2raw a tool to convert XRIT/SEVIRI data into a simple, headerless, raw binary file (along with libxrit, the library xrit2raw is based upon)

    EUMETSAT broadcasts Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) data in the XRIT (Low/High Rate Information Transmission) format.
    These data are segmented (8 segments for each channel, along with a prologue and an epilogue file) and wavelet-compressed. The libxrit library provides an interface to read the XRIT files provided they were decompressed (the decompression tool is not free, but is free to download from Eumetsat) and recombined (the only thing to do is to concatenate the prologue file, the 8 segments of image and the epilogue file, in this order, after decompression into a file using the SATMOS naming scheme, e.g. H-000-MSG1__-MSG1________-XXXXXX___-CYCLE____-YYYYMMDDhhmm, where XXXXXX is the channel and YYYYMMDDhhmm the time of the original files).

    xrit2raw is a simple tool designed above the libxrit library, in order to convert the XRIT format into a raw format, for people who don't want to bother themselves with programming. The output will be a simple, headerless binary file, with 3712x3712 values of radiances (in native 16-bit integer, or scaled simple or double precision floating point values, depending on the options set by the user).
    xrit-0.1.9.tar.gz

  • Cookie-cutter extraction of geostationary SEVIRI data in coincidence with heliosynchronous satellites (in SEVIRI geometry)
    Cookie-cutter is a LMD/Icare project whose purpose is to emulate an heliosynchronous satellite with SEVIRI acquisitions. The user defines her heliosynchronous satellite by giving some orbital and swath parameters. The tool then builds an HDF file with SEVIRI data as if they had been viewed by this fictive satellite.

    Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
  • VISU GLAS Visualisation of GLAS data and products through a graphic interface
    Written in IDL
    author: Bruno Six (ICARE)
    visu_glas.pro

    HDF GENERIC TOOLS
  • HDF2IMG A command line tool and a python module that reads the datas of an SDS and save it to an image.
    It's also possible to set the threshold and the calibration.
    hdf2img-0.1.0.tar.gz
  • HDF_TOOLS contains some command-line tools like :
    - hdf2raw : read the sds of an HDF file and write it to a binary one
    - raw2hdf : read a binary file and write it to a HDF one
    hdf_tools_1_0_0.tar.gz
  • HDFCPP C++ library for reading/writing hdf files developped by Icare. Only the API documentation is available.
    hdfcpp_0_1_0.tar.gz
  • FILEDATA High-level C++ library for reading files issued of different satellites developped by Icare.
    Contains a generic top-level library for reading HDF files called hdffiledata.
    Needs the hdfcpp library.
    Only the API documentation is available and still under development.
    filedata_0_1_0.tar.gz
  • ICARE_HDF_TOOLS contains some command-line tools like :
    - net2hdf : convert a netcdf file to an hdf one. It can also be used as a library.a HDF one.
    icare_hdf_tools.1.0.0.tar.gz

    GENERIC TOOLS
  • Remap a reprojection tool of geolocated data between various grids
    remap is a tool designed to reproject geolocated data (i.e. data with at least known latitudes, longitudes, and expectedly, time).
    The tool can read various products (Modis, Seviri, Calipso, Parasol, ...) and reprojects one (or several ones) into another. The current policy is to look for the nearest pixel in a search distance specified by the user (other, more clever policies, such as pixel averaging, may be implemented in the future).
    The user chooses the target grid (from one of the supported products or a lat-lon grid with a user-given resolution), the set of data she/he is interested in for each input product, eventually the name for these data in the output file, and lets the tool perform. The tool is invoked from the command line and therefore is scriptable. The output is written in HDF.
    This tool is SID (still in development) but may be used as is for the supported products (each version documents its supported products). It is designed to support new products when needed, provided the specification and routines to read to the data are standard or available.
    remap-0.4.6.tar.gz
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