icesat-2UT / PhoREAL

Tools and code for ICESat-2 data analysis

PhoREAL

Tools to make ICESat-2 ATL03 and ATL08 analysis easier

PhoREAL (Photon Research and Engineering Analysis Library) is a geospatial analysis toolbox that allows users to read, process, analyze, and output ICESat-2 ATL03 and ATL08 data in the form of figures and .las, .csv, and .kml files.

PhoREAL v3.30

The new features available in PhoREAL v3.30 include:

• Reduced time taken to export an ATL03 CSV file
• Replaced Pyproj library with Fiona to perform SRS transformations and improve compilation

Note: On Windows systems, the PhoREAL toolbox can be run as a Graphical User Interface (GUI) executable (.exe). On Linux systems, the PhoREAL toolbox can be run as a Python GUI or as a series of Python function commands via the Linux command line

Download PhoREAL_v3.30_init.exe (for Windows)

Update (Feb 02, 2022): PhoREAL v3.30 released https://utexas.box.com/v/DownloadPhoREALGUI

How to use Python Library

Simply build and install the PhoREAL python library

$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py install

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