read_coordinates

ASTERimage.read_coordinates(channel='1')[source]

Read reduced latitude and longitude grid.

Extract geolocation table containing latitude and longitude values at 11 x 11 lattice points. Latitudes are provided in geocentric coordinates and are maped to geodetic values.

Parameters:

channel (str) – ASTER channel number. ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3N’, ‘3B’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’, ‘7’, ‘8’, ‘9’, ‘10’, ‘11’, ‘12’, ‘13’, ‘14’.

Returns:

latitude, longitude

Return type:

ndarray, ndarray