ICARE programmers toolbox

ICARE developed a variety of tools to help users manipulate, analyze and visualize the data sets and formats available at ICARE. A few tools are provided by ICARE partners and distributed through this page. Feel free to use these tools. Please acknowledge the use of these tools in publications with a sentence such as “Software/tools provided by the ICARE Data and Services Center (http://www.icare.univ-lille1.fr)".
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Anapol : Visualization and Analysis of POLDER and PARASOL data through a graphical interface
Language/Sofware: IDL
Application type(s): Analysis, Visualization
Related project(s): PARASOL, POLDER
Description:
Anapol is an IDL graphical interface for POLDER and PARASOL data visualization and analysis.
The functionalities of the program are:
Selection of the region of interest, visualization of parameters, extraction of pixel value, creation of composites, histograms, etc
Author(s): Francois-Marie Bréon, Marie-Pierre Moine (LSCE)
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Average Tool: Statistics of a list of HDF4 files
Language/Sofware: Numpy, Python
Application type(s): Analysis
Related project(s): MSG, PARASOL
Description:
This tool computes the average of multiple products and additional statistical indicators, e.g. standard deviation, maximum and minimum per pixel. The input and output files are in HDF format.
Author(s): Nicolas Thomas (ICARE)
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Caliop2ascii: A code to output caliop data on Ascii format
Language/Sofware: C, C++
Application type(s):
Related project(s): CALIPSO
Description:
A new version of calipso2ascii is also available. The latest version allows to decode the values of the specific fields of SDS ("Feature_Classification_Flags") available on most of HDF products
Author(s): François Thieuleux
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Cookie-cutter: Extraction of geostationary SEVIRI data in coincidence with heliosynchronous satellites (in SEVIRI geometry)
Language/Sofware: C, C++, Fortran
Application type(s): Extraction
Related project(s): MSG
Description:
Cookie-cutter is a LMD/Icare project whose purpose is to emulate an heliosynchronous satellite with SEVIRI acquisitions. The user defines her heliosynchronous satellite by giving some orbital and swath parameters. The tool then builds an HDF file with SEVIRI data as if they had been viewed by this fictive satellite.
Author(s): Fabrice Ducos (ICARE - LOA)
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Correlation Matcher: Correlation graphics.
Language/Sofware: Python
Application type(s): Analysis
Related project(s):
Description:
This page contains the code of a tool for giving informations on correlations between two variables or two images.
Author(s): James Manley (ICARE)
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Filedata: High level C++ library for reading a lot of products hosted by ICARE
Language/Sofware: C++
Application type(s): Data Read/Write
Related project(s): CALIPSO, MODIS, PARASOL
Description:
This library provides interfaces for reading products hosted by ICARE, like MODIS, CALIPSO, PARASOL, CLOUDSAT, MERIS... It also provides high level interfaces to common file formats like HDF5 or HDF4
Author(s): Nicolas Pascal, James Manley (ICARE)
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Fis2raw: A tool to convert the FIS format (from the SATMOS, at Lannion) into a simple, headerless, raw binary file
Language/Sofware: C
Application type(s): Data Conversion
Related project(s): MSG
Description:
The FIS format is a data format provided in particular by the SATMOS Archivage Center, at Lannion (MSG data at Lannion are archived this way). The program fis2raw converts the FIS format into a raw, headerless, binary file. The number of values and their type may be retrieved while performing the conversion.
Author(s): Fabrice Ducos (ICARE - LOA - Univ. of Lille)
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Geostat: Navigation routines for some geostationary satellites ( METEOSAT, GOES, MSG )
Language/Sofware: C, Fortran
Application type(s): Data Read/Write
Related project(s): GOES, METEOSAT, MSG
Description:
A set of routines to compute latitudes, longitudes, azimutal and zenithal angles from rows and columns in the satellite grid (and the reverse)
Author(s): C wrapper : Fabrice Ducos ( ICARE - LOA - Univ. of Lille ) ; FORTRAN Library developped by SATMOS and supplied by Geneviève Sèze ( LMD )
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HDF compressor: Useful tool for compressing a HDF4 file
Language/Sofware: C++
Application type(s): Data Conversion
Related project(s):
Description:
This tool compress the datasets of a source HDF4 file using a gzip algorithm to a destination one. It also duplicates the SDS and file attributes.
Author(s): Nicolas Pascal (ICARE)
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HDF Reader: HDF4 files read library in many languages
Language/Sofware: C, Fortran, Fortran77, Fortran90, IDL, MATLAB, Python
Application type(s): Data Read/Write
Related project(s):
Description:
The library contains high-level read functions for HDF4 files in C, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, IDL, Python and MATLAB
Author(s): Bruno Six, Nicolas Pascal, Aminata Ndiaye (ICARE) ; Francois-Marie Breon (IPSL-LSCE)
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Source codes are distributed as compressed archives (.tar.Z or .tar.gz). To uncompress them, you can use :

  • "uncompress" : .Z files
  • "gunzip" : .gz files
  • "tar xzf" : tar.gz and .tgz files
  • "tar xjf" : tar.bz2 files

For IDL tools, both the source code (.pro) and the compiled version (.sav) are provided. The use of source codes may require a proper IDL licence, while the compiled version can be used through the IDL virtual machine that can be downloaded from the IDL website : www.ittvis.com