Python Software Tools for Glider Data

This document provides references to Python software relevant to glider data users. We rely on developers to keep this list up-to-date. If you know of corrections or additions, kindly inform us so that we may include links to the information.

Visualise IMOS glider data with Python

A tutorial that demonstrates how AODN glider data can be found, downloaded and loaded into Python; how to look through data and attributes of the data files; make plots and save modified data as netCDF files.

https://github.com/UNSW-MATH/python_group/blob/master/code%202019/IMOS_load_ANFOG.ipynb

 

DBDREADER

Dbdreader is a python package for reading binary data files generated by Teledyne Webb Research Slocum gliders.

https://dbdreader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html

 

GLIDER TOOLS

Glider Tools is a python toolkit for processing Seaglider base station NetCDF files: despiking, smoothing, outlier detection, backscatter, fluorescence quenching, calibration, gridding, interpolation.

https://glidertools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

 

GUTILS

GUTILS is a python framework for working with the data from Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). It supports Teledyne Webb Slocum Gliders.

https://github.com/secoora/GUTILS/

 

GLIDERSIM

Glidersim is an attempt to simulate the behaviour of (typically Slocum) ocean gliders.

https://github.com/smerckel/glidersim

 

Plotting IOOS glader data with IRIS & CARTOPY

IOOS demonstrates how to obtain and plot glider data using Python IRIS and CARTOPY.

https://ioos.github.io/ioos_code_lab/content/code_gallery/data_access_notebooks/2016-11-15-glider_data_example.html