LIDAR2NC

LIDAR2NC cindyhg Thu, 04/25/2019 - 10:10

LIDAR2NC Functionality

The LIDAR2NC tool is used to read Calipso and CATS satellite lidar datasets.

LIDAR2NC Usage

View the usage statement for LIDAR2NC by simply typing the following:

lidar2nc

At a minimum, the input lidar_filename and the output nc_filename must be passed in on the command line.

Run

Run cindyhg Thu, 04/25/2019 - 10:16

Since LIDAR2NC simply performs a reformatting step, no configuration file is needed.

Run LIDAR2NC on the command line using the following command:

lidar2nc \
$MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/input/lidar_data/CAL_LID_L2_05kmCLay-Prov-V3-40.2016-12-01T01-24-58ZN.hdf \
-out $MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/lidar2nc/CAL_LID_L2_05kmCLay-Prov-V3-40.2016-12-01T01-24-58ZN.nc 

 

LIDAR2NC is now reformatting the Calipso lidar file into NetCDF.

Output

Output cindyhg Thu, 04/25/2019 - 10:17

When LIDAR2NC is finished, you may view the output NetCDF file it wrote using the ncdump utility (if available on your machine). Run the following command to view the header of the NetCDF output file:

ncdump -h $MET_TUTORIAL_DATA/output/lidar2nc/CAL_LID_L2_05kmCLay-Prov-V3-40.2016-12-01T01-24-58ZN.nc