xopr

Overview¶

xopr is a Python library designed to make accessing Open Polar Radar’s data archives easy, scalable, and reproducible.

Installing xopr¶

For now, xopr is available only directly from source on GitHub. To install xopr, use:

pip install xopr

Or, using uv:

uv add xopr

Getting Started¶

Minimal example of loading and plotting a single frame of radar data:

import numpy as np
import xopr

opr = xopr.OPRConnection()

frames = opr.load_flight("2022_Antarctica_BaslerMKB", flight_id="20221228_01", data_product="CSARP_standard", max_items=1)

(10*np.log10(frames[0].Data)).plot.imshow(x='slow_time', y='twtt', cmap='gray', yincrease=False)

To learn more, check out our demo notebooks from the menu on the left side or on GitHub.

Design¶

For details on the initial design planning of xopr, please see this OPR wiki page.