Concise Description

Mars Global Surveyor radio occultation data reader and plotter for analyzing Mars surface-echo and atmospheric properties from radio occultation experiments.

Description

Mars Global Surveyor radio occultation experiment read and plot. This software provides utilities for reading MGS radio occultation data files in .sri, .lbl, and .srt formats and creating visualizations of the occultation data. The .sri data is big-endian int16 in Fortran order. The software supports reading high-level occultation data and plotting frequency vs time spectrograms of the received signal power, from which Mars surface-echo and atmospheric properties are derived in radio occultation experiments.

Authors

Michael Hirsch ( Boston University , Scivision, Inc. )

Functionality

Data Processing and Analysis Processing Spectrogram Data Visualization 2D Graphics Spectrogram

Technical Details

Programming Languages MATLAB Python 3.x

Operating Systems Operating System Independent

CPU Architecture CPU Independent

Development Status Unsupported

Publication Date Sep 15, 2014

Publisher Zenodo

Data & File Formats

Data Sources Observatory/Mission-specific

Input Formats ascii csv Other

Science Context

Related Observatories Mars Global Surveyor

Keywords

mars Mars global surveyor planetary pyhc package radio occultation

MGSutils

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MGSutils

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Related Datasets

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