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This work was initially supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), administered by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) under contract with NASA. It is currently supported under the NASA Cryospheric Sciences Program (Grant Number 80NSSC22K0379). Grounding-Zones consists of extension routines for the sets of read-ICESat-2 and pyTMD tools.

Dependencies

This software is also dependent on other commonly used Python packages:

• cdsapi: Python client libraries for the CDS Web API

• cartopy: Python package designed for geospatial data processing

• dateutil: powerful extensions to datetime

• earthengine-api: Python bindings for calling the Earth Engine API

• fiona: Python wrapper for vector data access functions from the OGR library

• gdal: Pythonic interface to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)

• h5py: Python interface for Hierarchal Data Format 5 (HDF5)

• lxml: processing XML and HTML in Python

• matplotlib: Python 2D plotting library

• mpi4py: Python bindings of the Message Passing Interface (MPI)

• netCDF4: Python interface to the netCDF C library

• numpy: Scientific Computing Tools For Python

• pyproj: Python interface to PROJ library

• pyTMD: Python-based tidal prediction software

• PyYAML: YAML parser and emitter for Python

• read-ICESat-2: Python tools to read data from the NASA ICESat-2 mission

• read-ATM1b-QFIT-binary: Python reader for Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) QFIT data products

• scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python

• scipy: Scientific Tools for Python

• shapely: PostGIS-ish operations outside a database context for Python

Disclaimer

This package includes software developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (UW-APL). It is not sponsored or maintained by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) or NASA.