Accessing CALIPSO metadata with Python
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 10:33 am America/New_York
Hello,
I am trying to plot a vertical profile of total backscatter from the CALIOP LiDAR on CALIPSO. However, I have been unable to access the “Lidar_Data_Altitudes” in the metadata group for the level 1B profile data product in Python using pyhdf.
I can view datasets in the root group with pyhdf’s SD module, but have not been able to read the metadata group with the vgroup module. I followed the example here (http://fhs.github.io/pyhdf/modules/V.ht ... g-a-vgroup) but did not see the metadata group in the output. Likewise, I am unable to view the altitude data in Panoply.
Is there a way to access the “Lidar_Data_Altitudes” using Python?
Thank you!
I am trying to plot a vertical profile of total backscatter from the CALIOP LiDAR on CALIPSO. However, I have been unable to access the “Lidar_Data_Altitudes” in the metadata group for the level 1B profile data product in Python using pyhdf.
I can view datasets in the root group with pyhdf’s SD module, but have not been able to read the metadata group with the vgroup module. I followed the example here (http://fhs.github.io/pyhdf/modules/V.ht ... g-a-vgroup) but did not see the metadata group in the output. Likewise, I am unable to view the altitude data in Panoply.
Is there a way to access the “Lidar_Data_Altitudes” using Python?
Thank you!