Pygac’s documentation

Pygac is a Python package to read, calibrate and navigate data from the AVHRR instrument onboard NOAA and MetOp satellites in GAC and LAC format.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Supported Data Format
  • Supported Sensors
  • Related Projects
• Installation
  • TLE files
  • Development
• Usage
  • Through Satpy
  • Direct Usage
  • Legacy CLI
• Methods
  • Calibration
  • Geolocation
  • Computation of Angles
  • Correction of Satellite Location
  • Correction of Scanline Timestamps
  • Scan-Motor-Issue
• The Pygac API
  • Reader Base Classes
  • Actual Reader Implementations
  • Calibration
• Legacy Output
  • GAC I/O module
  • Supplement A: Structure of an output file containing reflectances and brightness temperatures
  • Supplement B: Structure of an output file containing Sun and satellite positions
  • Supplement C: Structure of an output file containing quality flags

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page