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sampex

Easily load and plot data from the Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX) satellite that operated from 1992-2012. This library currently downloads and loads data from the HILT, PET, and LICA instruments, as well as the attitide files.

Documentation

The example plot below sums up what this library does. I generated it with this console command: plot_sampex 2007 1 20 --yscale log Example SAMPEX data from the HILT, PET, and LICA instruments

Install

Installing this package is as simple as

python3 -m pip install sampex

If you want to develop this package, run

git clone git@github.com:mshumko/sampex.git
cd sampex

Then one of these commands to install sampex into a virtual environment:

python3 -m pip install -e .

or

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt 

Get started

You can configure this package so it knows the top-level directory to search for (or save) the data to.

python3 -m sampex config

and paste the top-level SAMPEX data directory in the prompt.

Examples

There are a handful of examples in the documentation