Welcome to pygssi’s documentation!

pygssi is an open-source library for opening GSSI radar files. This should give you access to all the information in the header (except the gain, which I have been unable to parse) and access to the raw returns. It can do some basic things like plot up those returns, and there is a (poor) tracing application. This library can also parse gga strings from a GPS attached to the SIR4000.

Requirements

Python 2 or 3, numpy, scipy, pygeotools.

Install

You should only need to run python setup.py install to gain access to the libraries and to get the executables on your path.

Testing

Included are few basic tests. You will need to install nose to use them. They should be run with python setup.py test

Documentation

The main utilities to be aware of are:

gssi_filelib, which contains the functions that you would want to use to import data for use in your own code

gssilib, which has some functions for filtering and plotting and overall processing

and read_gssi.py, which will make a couple basic plots for you if all you need is a quick look. Further documentation can be found through the contents below.

Contents:

Indices and tables