Thoughts on adding CryoSat support

[alex-s-gardner]

I'd like to include CryoSat data in my workflow.. what are your thought on adding CryoSat support in SpaceLiDAR?

[alex-s-gardner]

Python reader: https://github.com/tsutterley/read-cryosat-2
Matlab reader: https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/tools/cryosat-matlab-routines

[evetion]

It would be a bit odd, as CryoSat-2 isn't LiDAR, but radar? And thus also raster instead of vector (points)? I'd say it's a separate package.

[alex-s-gardner]

CryoSat and other Radar altimeters provide point based measurements like a laser altimeter but they are indeed not laser altimeters ... a more appropriately named package for both sensor types would be SpaceAltimetry

[evetion]

Would there be much overlap in implementing other altimeters? As in same search, granules of HDF5 files that give a spatial table with points? If so, I would be open to PRs that add it, otherwise a separate package makes more sense.

[alex-s-gardner]

Closing this for now as it would be a big lift and probably belongs in it's own package