Setup and Installation

Dependencies

This software is dependent on open source programs that can be installed using OS-specific package management systems, conda or from source:

• MPI

• GDAL

• GEOS

• PROJ

• HDF5

• libxml2

• libxslt

The version of GDAL used within read-ICESat-2 will match the version of the installed C program. The path to the C program that will be used with read-ICESat-2 is given by:

gdal-config --datadir

The read-ICESat-2 installation uses the gdal-config routines to set the GDAL package version.

Installation

read-ICESat-2 is available for download from the GitHub repository, and the Python Package Index (pypi). The contents of the repository can be downloaded as a zipped file or cloned. To use this repository, please fork into your own account and then clone onto your system.

git clone https://github.com/tsutterley/read-ICESat-2.git

Can then install using setuptools

python setup.py install

or pip

python3 -m pip install --user .

Alternatively can install the utilities directly from GitHub with pip:

python3 -m pip install --user git+https://github.com/tsutterley/read-ICESat-2.git