EarthCARE Tools

A number of tools are available for visualising, processing, and simulating EarthCARE data.

ESA MAAP

ESA's Multi-mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP) is a data access and discovery catalogue for products from ESA’s Earth Explorer, Heritage, and Third Party Missions.

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MAAP Client

This tool is a Python client for accessing satellite data on ESA's Multi-mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP).



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EarthCARE Timeline Viewer

The EarthCARE Timeline Viewer is a JavaScript application, developed by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), running in your browser and can be used to quickly and easily browse the EarthCARE data products through time.




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EarthCARE Imagery Portal

The EarthCARE Imagery Portal, developed by McGill University, is a web-based platform to explore and visualize EarthCARE Atmospheric Lidar (ATLID) and Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) data.





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CCT ATLID Simulator

The CARDINAL Campaign Tools (CCT) Atmospheric Lidar (ATLID) simulator gitlab project, developed by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), provides a collection of tools that can be used to simulate ATLID observations, based on ground- or aeroplane-based optical properties profile measurements.


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MSI Simulator Tool

The Multi-Spectral Imager (MSI) Simulator Tool, developed by the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), performs forward simulations of MSI-like Level 1 radiances and brightness temperatures using, for example, ground- or airborne-based measurements as input.


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Orbital-Radar Simulator

This repository contains an orbital radar tool, written in Python, to transform ground-based radar observations into synthetic Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) data. The tool was developed by Lukas Pfitzenmaier and Nils Risse, Pavlos Kollias and Bernat Puigdomenech and Katia Lamer


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earthcarekit

earthcarekit is an open-source Python package that provides comprehensive and flexible tools for downloading, reading, analysing, and visualising EarthCARE Level 1 and Level 2 data. The package was developed by Leonard König at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS).


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ectools

ectools is a collection of Python tools developed by Shannon Mason (ECMWF) with contributions from ESA EarthCARE Level 2 processor developers, for input/output, postprocessing, and publication-quality plotting and analysis for EarthCARE Level 1 and Level 2 products.


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BBR Plotting Tools

Broadband Radiometer (BBR) Plotting Tools provides Python tools tailored for the visualisation of EarthCARE BBR Level 2 products. 





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Atmospheric Toolbox / AVL

The Atmospheric Toolbox is a core component of the Atmosphere Virtual Lab (AVL). The main elements of the toolbox are CODA and HARP. These provide a harmonised interface for reading and pre-processing data from a wide range of atmospheric data products.


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EVDC Orbit Prediction Tool

The Orbit Prediction and Overpass Tool (OPOT), produced by the ESA EO Validation Data Centre (EVDC), generates and visualises satellite's overpasses for many ESA missions, meteorological missions and Third Party Missions.



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ESOV Software Tools

ESOV (Earth Observation Swath and Orbit Visualisation) provides the means to visualise the instrument swaths of all ESA Earth Observation satellites and assist in understanding where and when satellite measurements are made and ground contact is possible.


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S2G Data Viewer

The Space to Ground (S2G) Data Viewer is an extensible software application that allows you to easily inspect the contents of CCSDS-compliant telemetry data exchanged between a satellite and its ground segments on the space-to-ground link.



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SAMI

SAMI (Satellite Mission Editor & Player) is a freely available software application for visualisation of high-resolution 3D and 2D scenarios of ESA Earth Observation satellites.



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EO CFI Software

The Earth Observation CFI Software is a collection of precompiled C libraries for timing, coordinate conversions, orbit propagation, satellite pointing calculations, and target visibility calculations.



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