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This guide allows one to enhance their JEDI-Skylab virtual environment to install the CLI from EUMETSAT called eumdac and the other the satpy  package that provides a number of readers for space-based assets.


Step-by-step guide

First let's create a new venv , in this guide it will be called venv-satpy 

  1. Ensure you are in an existing JEDI-Skylab venv .  This is the one that was created in later stages of step 2 of the Running Skylab when one runs this command python3 -m venv --system-site-packages venv  followed by source venv/bin/activate 

    Create the new virtual environment and activate it:
    $python_ROOT/bin/python3 -m venv --system-site-packages venv-satpy
source venv-satpy/bin/activate

# normally I now change directory into the venv-satpy when I run the following commands
cd venv-satpy
  2. Install the CLI for access to EUMETSAT Data Portal - eumdac
    # going to drop the preceding $python_ROOT/bin/ when calling python3
python3 -m pip install eumdac
python3 -m pip install --upgrade eumdac
  3. Install satpy:
    python3 -m pip install satpy

NOTE: If you now plan to download from EUMETSAT Data Portal - User Registration, you need to create the free account – and – request access to the 24-hour latent data streams here is an example of data access I've requested:



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