Citation Information

References

This work was initially supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), administered by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) under contract with NASA. The programs included in this software have contributed most recently to the following work:

T. C. Sutterley, T. Markus, T. A. Neumann, M. R. van den Broeke, J. M. van Wessem, and S. R. M. Ligtenberg, “Antarctic ice shelf thickness change from multimission lidar mapping”, The Cryosphere, 13, 1801–1817, (2019). doi:tc-13-1801-2019

Contributors

• Tyler Sutterley (University of Washington)

Development

read-ATM1b-QFIT-binary is an open source project. We welcome any help in maintaining and developing the software and documentation. Anyone at any career stage and with any level of coding experience can contribute.

Problem Reports

If you have found a problem in these programs, or you would like to suggest an improvement or modification, please submit a GitHub issue and we will get back to you.

Dependencies

This software is also dependent on other commonly used Python packages:

• numpy: Scientific Computing Tools For Python

• h5py: Python interface for Hierarchal Data Format 5 (HDF5)

• lxml: processing XML and HTML in Python

• future: Compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3

Credits

Program inspired by the QFIT C reader provided on NSIDC

Disclaimer

This package includes software developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (UW-APL). It is not sponsored or maintained by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), AVISO or NASA.