Attention

Cate has become the ESA Climate Toolbox. This documentation is being discontinued. You can find the documentation on the ESA Climate Toolbox here.

6. Operation Specifications

In this section, the non-trivial operations and data processors used in the ESA CCI Toolbox are specified. The term operation used here first refers to CCI Toolbox functions that will become part of the API as usual Python functions. Secondly and at the same time it refers to instances of such functions that are stored along with additional meta-data in the CCI Toolbox operation registry as described in Operation Management. The latter will be used to allow invocation of functions from the Cate command-line interface (CLI) and Cate App (GUI) web application.

The intended readership of this chapter are software end users wishing to understand the details of the algorithms and methods used in the CCI Toolbox.