The Open Polar Radar organization seeks to establish a software ecosystem to consolidate polar radar software and services and make the associated datasets standardized and searchable. Open Polar Radar collaborators include (email opr@openpolarradar.org if interested in joining)
- Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Glaciology and Sea Ice Groups
- British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
- Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX)
- Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECs)
- Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems (CReSIS)
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
- National Institute for Polar Research (NIPR)
- Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI)
- Stanford Radio Glaciology
- University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG)
- University of Washington (UW)
This wiki contains documentation and resources for the Open Polar Radar toolbox and Open Polar Server (OPS).
Please acknowledge use of these tools in projects or publications. To contribute to the Open Polar Radar project, please request access through GitLab to the repository you would like to contribute to or email opr@openpolarradar.org.
Please direct questions, help requests, suggestions, and error notifications to opr@openpolarradar.org.
Data User Links
- Open Polar Server: Web Map Service
- Open Polar Radar Data Products FTP and HTTPS Server
- BAS Data Products Server
Developer Links
- Open Polar Radar Source Code Repositories:
- Data Processing Toolbox: https://gitlab.com/openpolarradar/opr
- Data Processing Run Toolbox: https://gitlab.com/openpolarradar/run_opr
- Field Season Parameters: https://gitlab.com/openpolarradar/opr_params
- Open Polar Server and Web Client Geoportal: https://gitlab.com/openpolarradar/ops - wiki: database server to serve layer data; generally not required by most users
- OPR Toolbox Setup
- OPR Toolbox Guide
Guides on Specific Topics:
- Cluster Guide
- Data Tracking Guide
- File Guides Data Products and Raw Data
- Git Guide
- Machine Learning Guide
- Matlab Guide
- Processing Notes
- Python Guide
- Radar Guide
Citation
To cite usage of the OPR Toolbox please use the following:
Open Polar Radar. (2023). opr (Version 3.0.1) [Computer software]. https://gitlab.com/openpolarradar/opr/. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5683959
Acknowledgment
To acknowledge the use of the software, please include:
We acknowledge the use of software from Open Polar Radar generated with support from the University of Kansas, NASA grants 80NSSC20K1242 and 80NSSC21K0753, and NSF grants OPP-2027615, OPP-2019719, OPP-1739003, IIS-1838230, RISE-2126503, RISE-2127606, and RISE-2126468.
A few external packages have been integrated into the toolbox. The license information is included in the repository in the specific files that come from other sources.
GitLab Wiki Tutorial
Consult the GitLab Documentation for information on how to edit the markdown in this wiki. The Markdown Guide is a good place to start in this documentation.
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