IR Clouds

Scripts for generating images sequences for IR cloud data

Requirements

1. Python 2.7.x+
2. Python Pillow - for image generation
3. curl for downloading files
4. pyopencl for efficient processing of projections
5. An Earthdata account for authentication

Processing the frames

Let's say we want to process all frames between august 2018 and november 2018. You can run the following command:

python run.py -start " 2018-08-01" -end " 2018-11-30" -auth "username:password" -fdir "<your path to output frames folder>"

You can get your username and password here.

Data files are deleted after frame is finished processing by default. If you'd like to keep the (very large) data files after you are done processing a frame, add -del 0 -ddir "<your path to downloaded data folder>" to the command.

Also, the script runs multiple threads by default to speed up processing. You can increase/decrease this by passing in -threads 4 (i.e. 4 threads). This can be 1 up to however much your CPU allows. Enter -1 for the maximum allowed.