poets 0.2.0

python Open Earth Observation Tools

poets is a package with aims to provide a standard library that can be used for collecting and resampling geospatial image datasets.

Features

• easy download of geospatial image datasets provided via Supported Data Sources

• spatial and temporal resampling of datasets

• saves resampled images as NetCDF4 file

Supported Datasets

Sources Data Sources

In order to work properly, all datasets must be provided via one of the following protocols:

• HTTP

• FTP

• SFTP

All files within a repository must be named following a certain structure, this structure MUST NOT vary.

Supported File Types

poets supports following file types:

• NetCDF version >= 4.0

• png, jpg, tif and gif image files

The latter image files must have global coverage with longitudes from -180 to 180 and latitudes from -90 to 90, with the left upper pixel at -180, 90 and the right lower pixel at 180,-90.

Ancillary data

The world country boundary shape file was downloaded from http://geocommons.com/overlays/33578