Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: ease-grid
Version: 0.1
Summary: EASE grid generation
Home-page: http://...
Author: Christoph Paulik
Author-email: christoph.paulik@geo.tuwien.ac.at
License: mit
Description: =========
        ease_grid
        =========
        
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        The Equal-Area Scalable Earth (EASE) Grid is a system of projections that is
        used by NASA and others for distribution of remote sensing data.
        
        You can find some overview information at `the NSIDC website
        <http://nsidc.org/data/ease>`_. Unfortunately from the documentation it was not
        clear to me how the latitude, longitude values of certain EASE grid resolutions
        were calculated. So I wrote this package to find out.
        
        Supported EASE Grids
        ====================
        
        There are two versions of EASE grid systems. This package focuses on EASE-Grid
        2.0 at the moment. The data we were reading is disseminated on the global
        EASE-Grid projection which is why this is the one that is currently supported.
        
        Calculation of any global EASE2 grid should work. Compability with the tiling
        scheme of NASA is tested for the global 36km grid (``EASE2_M36KM``) and the
        global 25km grid (``EASE2_M25KM``). The tiling of the 25km grid is only the same
        as the NASA tiling if the ``map_scale`` parameter is given explicitely. This
        will also be the case for the subgrids of the 36km grid like ``EASE2_M09KM`` and
        ``EASE2_M03KM``. The ``map_scale`` parameters used by NASA are available from
        the file ``ease2_grid_info.pro`` inside the ``easeconv*.tgz`` file at
        ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/pub/tools/easegrid/geolocation_tools/
        
        How to use
        ==========
        
        To get the coordinates of a EASE2 grid:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            from ease_grid import EASE2_grid
            egrid = EASE2_grid(36000)
            assert egrid.shape == (406, 964)
            # these two attributes contain the longitude and latitude coordinate dimension
            egrid.londim
            egrid.latdim
        
        Note
        ====
        
        This project has been set up using PyScaffold 2.5.6. For details and usage
        information on PyScaffold see http://pyscaffold.readthedocs.org/.
        
        
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Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
