; ; This example code illustrates how to access and visualize ICESat-2 ; ATL03 L2A version 4 HDF5 file in IDL. ; ; If you have any questions, suggestions, comments on this example, ; please use the HDF-EOS Forum (http://hdfeos.org/forums). ; ; If you would like to see an example of any other NASA HDF/HDF-EOS ; data product that is not listed in the HDF-EOS Comprehensive Examples page ; (http://hdfeos.org/zoo), feel free to contact us at eoshelp@hdfgroup.org ; or post it at the HDF-EOS Forum (http://hdfeos.org/forums). ; Usage: ; ; $idl ATL03_20181027235521_04480111_004_01.h5.idl ; ; Tested under: IDL 8.7.2 ; Last updated: 2021-05-06 ; Open file. file_name='ATL03_20181027235521_04480111_004_01.h5' file_id=H5F_OPEN(file_name) ; Read latitude. latitude_name='/gt1l/geolocation/reference_photon_lat' latitude_id=H5D_OPEN(file_id, latitude_name) lat=H5D_READ(latitude_id) ; Close dataset. H5D_CLOSE, latitude_id ; Read longitude. lon_name='/gt1l/geolocation/reference_photon_lon' lon_id=H5D_OPEN(file_id, lon_name) lon=H5D_READ(lon_id) ; Close dataset. H5D_CLOSE, lon_id ; Read temperature. temp_name='/gt1l/geolocation/tx_pulse_energy' temp_id=H5D_OPEN(file_id, temp_name) temp=H5D_READ(temp_id) ; Read unit attribute. units_temp_id=H5A_OPEN_NAME(temp_id, 'units') units_temp=H5A_READ(units_temp_id) H5A_CLOSE, units_temp_id ; Read long name attribute. ln_temp_id=H5A_OPEN_NAME(temp_id, 'long_name') long_name_temp=H5A_READ(ln_temp_id) H5A_CLOSE, ln_temp_id ; Close dataset. H5D_CLOSE, temp_id ; Close file. H5F_CLOSE, file_id ; Generate the plot. m = MAP('Geographic', TITLE=file_name, FONT_SIZE=9, /BUFFER) ct = COLORTABLE(72, /reverse) t1 = TEXT(0.35, 0.01, long_name_temp) datamin=MIN(temp) datamax=MAX(temp) c1 = SCATTERPLOT(lon, lat, OVERPLOT=m, $ MAGNITUDE = temp, $ RGB_TABLE=ct, $ POSITION=[0.1, 0.1, 0.83, 0.9],$ /SYM_FILLED, SYMBOL='o', SYM_SIZE=0.1) mc = MAPCONTINENTS() ; We need custom colorbar because we use SCATTERPLOT(). ; We cannot use TARGET=c1. cb = COLORBAR(RGB_TABLE=ct, RANGE=[datamin, datamax], /BORDER, ORIENTATION=1, TEXTPOS=1, POSITION=[0.85,0.2,0.87,0.8], TITLE=units_temp) png = file_name + '.idl.png' c1.save, png, HEIGHT=600, WIDTH=800 EXIT