CEDAR presentation feedback

[asreimer]

• data filtering, for example mean filtering of sparse GPS TEC
• plotting in magnetic coordinates
• pysat can provide data download capabilities

[ljlamarche]

Triaging these:

1. Data filtering/interpolation: This is something that works in very well with the desire to have common gridding routines in the future. This is important, but it's also going to be a MAJOR effort to implement.

2. Plotting in magnetic coordinates: There was a lot of interest in this. With the new DataSet architecture, it shouldn't be too hard to implement. Proposed strategy:

• User initializes DataSet object.
• DataSet object automatically converts whatever input coordinates are to geodetic lat/lon/alt.
• When user calls Visualize, there is a flag set for plotting in magnetic.
• Before any plotting, each DataSet object is converted to magnetic coordinates.
• Plot magnetic coordinates. Probably won't be able to show continents and whatnot in magnetic coordinates, but that's ok.

3. Pysat: This package looks like it'll be a good solution to accessing satellite data. In the future, it's supposed to also have functionality to access ground-based data, but it sounds like they'll just be pulling this from madrigal, so it will probably have a lot of the same data format issues. Currently, having issues with the installation of the pysat CDF4 library. This needs more investigation.