Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: pytesmo
Version: 0.1.1
Summary: python Toolbox for the Evaluation of Soil Moisture Observations
Home-page: http://rs.geo.tuwien.ac.at/validation_tool/pytesmo/
Author: pytesmo Team
Author-email: Christoph.Paulik@geo.tuwien.ac.at
License: LICENSE.txt
Description: Introduction to pytesmo a python Toolbox for the Evaluation of Soil Moisture Observations
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        pytesmo is a package which aims it is to provide a standard library that can be used for the comparison and validation
        of geospatial time series datasets with a focus on soil moisture.
        
        It contains an expanding collection of readers for different soil moisture datasets (see `Supported Datasets`_) as well as routines for comparing them.
        Special classes in the module :mod:`pytesmo.grid` provide easy nearest neighbor searching between datasets as well as 
        the calculation of lookup tables of nearest neighbours. They also provide possibilities to easily read all 
        grid points of a dataset in the correct order.
        
        It contains the code used for the calculation of metrics by the 
        `Satellite Soil Moisture Validation Tool For ASCAT <http://rs.geo.tuwien.ac.at/validation_tool/ascat.html>`_. See :mod:`pytesmo.metrics`.
        
        
        
        Features
        ========
        
        * easily read data from the `Supported Datasets`_
        * anomaly calculation based on climatology or using a moving window see :mod:`pytesmo.anomaly`
        * easy temporal matching of time series see :mod:`pytesmo.temporal_matching`
        * multiple methods for scaling between different observation domains (CDF matching, linear regreesion, min-max matching) see :mod:`pytesmo.scaling`
        * calculate standard metrics like correlation coefficients, RMSD, bias, 
          as well as more complex ones like triple collocation or MSE as a decomposition of the RMSD see :mod:`pytesmo.metrics`
        
        
        Supported Datasets
        ==================
        
        Soil moisture is observed using different methods and instruments, in this version the following datasets are supported.
        
        Remotely sensed products
        ------------------------
        
        In this version soil moisture observations made with the following instruments are supported:
        
        ERS
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        * ERS-1/2 AMI 25km SSM (Surface Soil Moisture)
        available from http://rs.geo.tuwien.ac.at/products
        
        ASCAT
        ~~~~~
        
        * ASCAT SSM(Surface Soil Moisture) Time Series
        Available in custom format from http://rs.geo.tuwien.ac.at/products/
        Available in netCDF format from http://hsaf.meteoam.it/soil-moisture.php
        
        
        * ASCAT SWI(Soil Water Index) Time Series
        Available in custom format from http://rs.geo.tuwien.ac.at/products/
        
        insitu obervations
        ------------------
        
        Data from the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN)
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        ISMN data can be downloaded for free after registration from http://ismn.geo.tuwien.ac.at/
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