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Default daytime band products should be reflectances #707
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What about geo2grid readers? |
I will speak to Graeme about the defaults for G2G. |
My plan for implementing this would be to make "aliases" for all channels requested from the command line that are visible channels. In Satpy terms, they would be an alias for In normal software versioning terms, I'm tempted to say this is almost a "major" change deserving of a 4.0 release but I suppose it doesn't have to be. Just something that popped in my head when thinking about this last night. |
I understand why you would say this. I think it will also add processing time too. But I think it is the right thing to do, and Liam is right in that our users, especially in the polar regions, will get uniform images across sensors. An important part of this change will be to make sure that I document it well for end users. |
Any idea if there are any readers (AVHRR?) where we don't have access to solar zenith angles and they would have to be computed on-the-fly from the lon/lats? That would take the processing time hit from insignificant to extremely annoying. |
Just to have it written down for future reference, the readers affected by this are:
Any others? Did we ask Graeme about Geo2Grid? |
I should note that for readers/files where SZA is not available at every resolution, there will be a required resampling step that will now take longer because of needing to resample not just band data but also the SZA. One example is mersi2 where SZA is available at 1km but some bands are available at 250. |
Understood. |
Our boss Liam has requested that Polar2Grid create actual reflectances that include division by the cosine of the solar zenith angle for each of the polar orbiting satellites that we support, including AVHRR and MODIS. This should be the default daytime reflectance band output.
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