SIFT Documentation

SIFT, Satellite Information Familiarization Tool, is a GUI application for viewing and analyzing earth-observing satellite data. This documentation includes information on high-level concepts and how-tos of SIFT, but low-level information for advanced features and how to contribute to the project can also be found.

For general information on the use of SIFT, official releases, and installation instructions of those releases see the SIFT home page. Note that the library and python package for the SIFT project are named uwsift.

For source code see the GitHub repository.

• Installation
  • System Requirements
  • Application and Bundle
  • Python Package Installation
  • Running from the python package
• Initial setup for packaging SIFT with CMake
  • Bootstrapping
  • Building Conda and PyInstaller Packages
• Configuring SIFT
  • Logging
  • Catalogue and Auto Update Mode
  • Watchdog
  • Default Colormaps
  • Points Styles
  • Configuring Point Styles Based on the Dataset Standard Name
  • Display
  • Layer Manager Display Names
  • External Satpy
  • Readers
  • Latlon Grid Resolution
  • Projections / Area Definitions
  • Units
  • Storage
• Auto Update Mode
  • Disk Space Management Tools
• SIFT Profiling
• API
  • Subpackages
  • Submodules
  • uwsift.common module
  • uwsift.queue module
  • uwsift.satpy_compat module
  • uwsift.version module
  • Module contents
• Developer’s Guide
  • Contributing
  • Design Overview
  • Writing Tests

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page