Source code for pelagos_py.steps.quality_control.position_on_land_qc

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"""QC test that identifies glider positions not located on land and flags accordingly."""

#### Mandatory imports ####
from pelagos_py.steps.base_qc import BaseQC, register_qc

#### Custom imports ####
from geodatasets import get_path
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import shapely as sh
import numpy as np
import xarray as xr
import matplotlib
import geopandas
from pelagos_py.utils import fig_spec


@register_qc
[docs] class position_on_land_qc(BaseQC): """ Target Variable: LATITUDE, LONGITUDE Flag Number: 4 (bad data) Variables Flagged: LATITUDE, LONGITUDE Checks that the measurement location is not on land. """ qc_name = "position on land qc" parameter_schema = {} required_variables = ["LATITUDE", "LONGITUDE"] qc_outputs = ["LATITUDE_QC", "LONGITUDE_QC"]
[docs] def return_qc(self): # Concat the polygons into a MultiPolygon object self.world = geopandas.read_file(get_path("naturalearth.land")) land_polygons = sh.ops.unary_union(self.world.geometry) # Check if lat, long coords fall within the area of the land polygons lon, lat = self.data["LONGITUDE"].values, self.data["LATITUDE"].values on_land = sh.contains_xy(land_polygons, lon, lat) qc = np.where(np.isnan(lon) | np.isnan(lat), 9, np.where(on_land, 4, 1)) # The same flags go on LATITUDE as well. self.flags = xr.Dataset( data_vars={ "LONGITUDE_QC": ("N_MEASUREMENTS", qc), "LATITUDE_QC": ("N_MEASUREMENTS", qc.copy()), }, coords={"N_MEASUREMENTS": self.data["N_MEASUREMENTS"]}, ) return self.flags
[docs] def plot_diagnostics(self): matplotlib.use("tkagg") fig, axes = fig_spec.new_fig() ax = axes[0][0] # Plot land boundaries self.world.plot(ax=ax, facecolor="lightgray", edgecolor="black", alpha=0.3) fig_spec.flag_points( ax, self.data["LONGITUDE"].values, self.data["LATITUDE"].values, self.flags["LATITUDE_QC"].values, ) fig_spec.style_axes( ax, xlabel=fig_spec.axis_label("LONGITUDE", self.data["LONGITUDE"].attrs.get("units")), ylabel=fig_spec.axis_label("LATITUDE", self.data["LATITUDE"].attrs.get("units")), ) fig_spec.legend(ax, title="Flags") fig_spec.finish(fig, suptitle="Position On Land Test") plt.show(block=True)