neonutilities Documentation#

neonutilities is a Python package for accessing and downloading data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) API.

Contents:

Install#

The easiest way to install neonutilities and its dependencies is with pip.

conda activate myenv
pip install git+https://github.com/arojas314/neonutilities.git

Capabilities#

Download and Read Data#

First, download some PAR data and save to a directory.

# Download PAR data
import neonutilities as nu
nu.api.download_data('DP1.00024.001', "HARV", start="2019-01", end="2019-02", download_folder="./data")

Note

A complete listing of the products available are available at here.

There are methods to do the following:

  • Download aerial observation platform (AOP) remote sensing data for a given area

  • Download and read eddy covariance (EC) instrument data directly into a Pandas DataFrame

# Download AOP data
nu.api.download_aop_files('DP1.30003.001','HARV','2019','./data/HARV_2019/lidar','./HARV_poly.shp') # Spatial data should be in local UTM zone!

# Download EC instrument data and read directly into dataframe
par_data = nu.api.get_instrument_data("DP1.00024.001", "HARV", start="2020-01", end="2020-12", tmi = 30, outdir = "./NEON_PAR_HARV")

Indices and tables#