Plotting with pyresample and Cartopy¶
Pyresample supports basic integration with Cartopy (http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/).
Displaying data quickly¶
Pyresample has some convenience functions for displaying data from a single channel. The function plot.show_quicklook shows a Cartopy generated image of a dataset for a specified AreaDefinition. The function plot.save_quicklook saves the Cartopy image directly to file.
Example usage:
>>> import numpy as np
>>> from pyresample import load_area, save_quicklook, SwathDefinition
>>> from pyresample.kd_tree import resample_nearest
>>> lons = np.zeros(1000)
>>> lats = np.arange(-80, -90, -0.01)
>>> tb37v = np.arange(1000)
>>> area_def = load_area('areas.cfg', 'ease_sh')
>>> swath_def = SwathDefinition(lons, lats)
>>> result = resample_nearest(swath_def, tb37v, area_def,
... radius_of_influence=20000, fill_value=None)
>>> save_quicklook('tb37v_quick.png', area_def, result, label='Tb 37v (K)')
- Assuming lons, lats and tb37v are initialized with real data the result might look something like this:
The data passed to the functions is a 2D array matching the AreaDefinition.
The Plate Carree projection¶
The Plate Carree projection (regular lon/lat grid) is named eqc in Proj.4 and cyl in Basemap. pyresample uses the Proj.4 name. Assuming the file areas.cfg has the following area definition:
REGION: pc_world {
NAME: Plate Carree world map
PCS_ID: pc_world
PCS_DEF: proj=eqc
XSIZE: 640
YSIZE: 480
AREA_EXTENT: (-20037508.34, -10018754.17, 20037508.34, 10018754.17)
};
Example usage:
>>> import numpy as np
>>> from pyresample import load_area, save_quicklook, SwathDefinition
>>> from pyresample.kd_tree import resample_nearest
>>> lons = np.zeros(1000)
>>> lats = np.arange(-80, -90, -0.01)
>>> tb37v = np.arange(1000)
>>> area_def = load_area('areas.cfg', 'pc_world')
>>> swath_def = SwathDefinition(lons, lats)
>>> result = resample_nearest(swath_def, tb37v, area_def, radius_of_influence=20000, fill_value=None)
>>> save_quicklook('tb37v_pc.png', area_def, result, num_meridians=0, num_parallels=0, label='Tb 37v (K)')
- Assuming lons, lats and tb37v are initialized with real data the result might look something like this:
The Globe projections¶
From v0.7.12 pyresample can use the geos, ortho and nsper projections with Basemap. Starting with v1.9.0 quicklooks are now generated with Cartopy which should also work with these projections. Assuming the file areas.cfg has the following area definition for an ortho projection area:
REGION: ortho {
NAME: Ortho globe
PCS_ID: ortho_globe
PCS_DEF: proj=ortho, a=6370997.0, lon_0=40, lat_0=-40
XSIZE: 640
YSIZE: 480
AREA_EXTENT: (-10000000, -10000000, 10000000, 10000000)
};
Example usage:
>>> import numpy as np
>>> from pyresample import load_area, save_quicklook, SwathDefinition
>>> from pyresample.kd_tree import resample_nearest
>>> lons = np.zeros(1000)
>>> lats = np.arange(-80, -90, -0.01)
>>> tb37v = np.arange(1000)
>>> area_def = load_area('areas.cfg', 'ortho')
>>> swath_def = SwathDefinition(lons, lats)
>>> result = resample_nearest(swath_def, tb37v, area_def, radius_of_influence=20000, fill_value=None)
>>> save_quicklook('tb37v_ortho.png', area_def, result, num_meridians=0, num_parallels=0, label='Tb 37v (K)')
- Assuming lons, lats and tb37v are initialized with real data the result might look something like this:
Getting a Cartopy CRS¶
To make more advanced plots than the preconfigured quicklooks Cartopy can be used to work with mapped data alongside matplotlib. The below code is based on this Cartopy example. Pyresample allows any AreaDefinition to be converted to a Cartopy CRS as long as Cartopy can represent the projection. Once an AreaDefinition is converted to a CRS object it can be used like any other Cartopy CRS object.
>>> import numpy as np
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> from pyresample import load_area, save_quicklook, SwathDefinition
>>> from pyresample.kd_tree import resample_nearest
>>> lons = np.zeros(1000)
>>> lats = np.arange(-80, -90, -0.01)
>>> i04_data = np.arange(1000)
>>> swath_def = SwathDefinition(lons, lats)
>>> area_def = swath_def.compute_optimal_bb_area({'proj': 'lcc', 'lon_0': -95., 'lat_0': 25., 'lat_1': 25., 'lat_2': 25.})
>>> result = resample_nearest(swath_def, i04_data, area_def,
... radius_of_influence=20000, fill_value=None)
>>> crs = area_def.to_cartopy_crs()
>>> ax = plt.axes(projection=crs)
>>> ax.coastlines()
>>> ax.set_global()
>>> plt.imshow(data, transform=crs, extent=crs.bounds, origin='upper')
>>> plt.colorbar()
>>> plt.savefig('viirs_i04_cartopy.png')
Assuming lons, lats, and i04_data are initialized with real data the result might look something like this:
Getting a Basemap object¶
Warning
Basemap is no longer maintained. Cartopy (see above) should be used instead. Basemap does not support Matplotlib 3.0+ either.
In order to make more advanced plots than the preconfigured quicklooks a Basemap object can be generated from an AreaDefinition using the plot.area_def2basemap(area_def, **kwargs) function.
Example usage:
>>> import numpy as np
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> from pyresample import load_area, save_quicklook, area_def2basemap, SwathDefinition
>>> from pyresample.kd_tree import resample_nearest
>>> lons = np.zeros(1000)
>>> lats = np.arange(-80, -90, -0.01)
>>> tb37v = np.arange(1000)
>>> area_def = load_area('areas.cfg', 'ease_sh')
>>> swath_def = SwathDefinition(lons, lats)
>>> result = resample_nearest(swath_def, tb37v, area_def,
... radius_of_influence=20000, fill_value=None)
>>> bmap = area_def2basemap(area_def)
>>> bmng = bmap.bluemarble()
>>> col = bmap.imshow(result, origin='upper')
>>> plt.savefig('tb37v_bmng.png', bbox_inches='tight')
- Assuming lons, lats and tb37v are initialized with real data the result might look something like this:
Any keyword arguments (not concerning the projection) passed to plot.area_def2basemap will be passed directly to the Basemap initialization.
For more information on how to plot with Basemap please refer to the Basemap and matplotlib documentation.