Version 1.8.0 (2026/05/18)

Issues Closed

• Issue 155 - Relicense to Apache Version 2 (PR 157 by @sfinkens)
• Issue 146 - pygac/pod_reader.py: Invalid truncated buffers due to index overflow. (PR 147 by @asantam)
• Issue 139 - Calculation of pixel lat/lon does not work for GAC files (PR 142 by @oembury)
• Issue 136 - gac_pod reader is parsing padding bytes as scanlines
• Issue 135 - Access AVHRR data of NOAA satellites
• Issue 130 - Cannot read LAC files from NOAA CLASS (PR 131 by @mraspaud)

In this release 6 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 149 - Activate google-style docs in sphinx
• PR 148 - Fix python requirement in rtd
• PR 133 - Fix bogus dtype refactoring
• PR 131 - Enable decoding of tbm dataset name (130)

Features added

• PR 157 - Relicense to Apache-2.0 (155)
• PR 153 - Update read_tle_file in reader.py to not cause an infinite loop and to mask lat/lon after georeferencing
• PR 152 - Add median gcp distance to metadata
• PR 151 - Add first guess for time offset
• PR 150 - Added handling for optional DEM and orthocorrection
• PR 147 - fix: prevent overflow on POD buffer truncation (146)
• PR 142 - Use new avhrr*_from_times definitions to calculate tie-point locations (139)
• PR 141 - Add georeferencer for calibrated dataset
• PR 137 - Fix links to user guides
• PR 132 - Add numpy 2 compatibility ruff checks
• PR 127 - Extract calibration modules from the reader

Documentation changes

• PR 149 - Activate google-style docs in sphinx

In this release 16 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.7.4

Issues Closed

• Issue 128 - Reading of files broken for numpy 2.0.0
• Issue 114 - Feature request: Overlap Area Crop just like pygac-fdr

In this release 2 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Features added

• PR 126 - Switch to pyproject.tomlentirely

In this release 1 pull request was closed.

Version 1.7.3 (2024/03/19)

Pull Requests Merged

Features added

• PR 125 - Support reading EO-SIP LAC data

In this release 1 pull request was closed.

Version 1.7.2 (2023/06/26)

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 120 - Compatibility with numpy v1.24

Features added

• PR 122 - Don't use deprecated distutils module.

Documentation changes

• PR 123 - Update supported data formats in documentation (2494)

In this release 3 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.7.1 (2022/12/09)

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 119 - Fix the documentation to include FRAC and light cleanup

In this release 1 pull requests were closed.

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.7.1

Version 1.7.0

Issues Closed

• Issue 112 - Usage documentation uses wrong function name for 'get_reader_class' (PR 113 by @mraspaud)
• Issue 78 - Handle completely missing ICT or space counts (PR 117 by @mraspaud)
• Issue 22 - Thermal calibration error (PR 117 by @mraspaud)

In this release 3 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 117 - Fix calibration when 3b is totally deactivated (78, 22)
• PR 116 - Fix typos and deprecations
• PR 113 - Fix usage typo (112)

Features added

• PR 118 - Bump up python versions
• PR 115 - Add support for frac data

In this release 5 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.6.0

Issues Closed

• Issue 107 - Fix sun-earth distance correction
• Issue 104 - Links to POD/KLM user guides are mixed up (PR 105 by @mraspaud)
• Issue 103 - API is missing on readthedocs
• Issue 40 - Calculated sun-earth distance correction factor once and add as attribute

In this release 4 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Features added

• PR 109 - Add new unpublished METOPC VIS calibration coefficients from Patmos-x

Documentation changes

• PR 105 - Fix the pod and klm guide links (104)

In this release 2 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.5.0 (2022/01/10)

Issues Closed

• Issue 94 - Method get_tle_lines() raises index error when tle lines are empty strings
• Issue 90 - Change in masked scanlines
• Issue 87 - Unit test discovery (PR 98 by @sfinkens)
• Issue 85 - Update documentation
• Issue 80 - Reduce rounding error in POD reader adjust clock drift (PR 84 by @carloshorn)
• Issue 76 - IndexError in PODReader._adjust_clock_drift (PR 84 by @carloshorn)
• Issue 74 - Remove Cython dependency (PR 83 by @carloshorn)
• Issue 46 - Pypi and presentation work
• Issue 43 - Links to POD/KLM user guides are broken
• Issue 39 - Update release in preparation for conda-forge package

In this release 10 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 91 - Invert bit position in quality flags
• PR 84 - Refactor clock drift (82, 81, 80, 76)
• PR 79 - Fix tests on bigendian platforms
• PR 75 - Typo

Features added

• PR 98 - Switch to pytest for unit tests (87)
• PR 92 - Allow PathLike objects
• PR 89 - Add github workflow
• PR 86 - add METOP C coefficients
• PR 84 - Refactor clock drift (82, 81, 80, 76)
• PR 83 - Replace cython filter (74)

In this release 10 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.3.0 (2019/12/05)

Pull Requests Merged

Features added

• PR 45 - Add LAC support (5)
• PR 42 - Update documentation
• PR 41 - Add meta_data dictionary to reader class.

In this release 3 pull requests were closed.

Version 1.2.1 (2019/11/15)

Pull Requests Merged

Bugs fixed

• PR 37 - Fixing geotiepoints attribute error for python2.7
• PR 36 - Fix update of missing scanlines

Features added

• PR 38 - Fix tests for python 3

In this release 3 pull requests were closed.