ccplot
ccplot is an open source command-line application for producing two-dimensinal plots of profile, layer and earth view data from CloudSat, CALIPSO and Aqua satellites.
The project is hosted at ccplot.org.
Requirements
Make sure you have the following programs and libraries installed:
- Python >= 2.6 including development files
- cython
- numpy
- matplotlib
- basemap
- libhdf4
- libhdfeos2
Note: On Debian-based distributions (Ubuntu, Devuan, ...) install dependencies with:
# Python 3
apt-get install --no-install-recommends python3 python3-dev gcc python3-distutils cython3 libhdf4-dev libhdfeos-dev python3-pil python3-numpy python3-matplotlib python3-mpltoolkits.basemap ttf-bitstream-vera
# Python 2
apt-get install --no-install-recommends python python-dev gcc cython libhdf4-dev libhdfeos-dev python-pil python-numpy python-matplotlib python-mpltoolkits.basemap ttf-bitstream-vera
Installation
Go to the source distribution directory and perform the following commands:
# Python 3
python3 setup.py build
sudo python3 setup.py install
# Python 2
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
More information
See the man page ccplot(1) for information about usage, or visit ccplot.org.
License
This program can be freely distributed and modified under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. You can find the full text in the file LICENSE.
Thanks
A number of people helped to make ccplot better for others. Special thanks goes to:
- Ryan Scott for helping to port ccplot to Mac OS X.
- Yin and to Subok Kim for reporting bugs.