This is a Python module to simplify working with data from the Microtops sun photometer.
The functionality is split into two parts at the moment:
- Processing Microtops data files (including interpolating AOT at other wavelengths)
- Reading Microtops data from the instrument over a serial connection, and saving/processing the data.
PyMicrotops is available on PyPI, so install by running
pip install PyMicrotops
The module is fairly well documented with docstrings, so a fairly quick example should be all that's needed:
from PyMicrotops import Microtops
m = Microtops('microtopsfile.csv')
# Plot all of the AOT data
m.plot()
# Plot for a specific time period
m.plot('2014-07-10','2014-07-19')
# Get AOT at a specific wavelength - interpolating if needed
m.aot(550)You can also run the read_microtops command from the command-line
which will read and save Microtops data from a connected instrument. If
no command-line parameters are given then it will use a simple
command-line user-interface, alternatively the port to use and the
filename to save to can be given as arguments.