Source code for src.toolbox.steps.custom.qc.position_on_land_qc

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

#### Mandatory imports ####
from toolbox.steps.base_qc import BaseQC, register_qc, flag_cols

#### 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


@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. """
[docs] qc_name = "position on land qc"
[docs] expected_parameters = {}
[docs] required_variables = []
[docs] qc_outputs = ["LATITUDE_QC", "LONGITUDE_QC"]
[docs] def return_qc(self): self.flags = xr.Dataset(coords={"N_MEASUREMENTS": self.data["N_MEASUREMENTS"]}) if "LATITUDE" not in self.data or "LONGITUDE" not in self.data: print("Warning: LATITUDE or LONGITUDE missing. Skipping position on land qc.") return self.flags # 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 # shapely.contains_xy evaluates arrays quickly and returns a boolean array on_land_mask = sh.contains_xy( land_polygons, self.data["LONGITUDE"].values, self.data["LATITUDE"].values ) # Apply flags: True (on land) -> 4, False (in water) -> 1 flag_values = np.where(on_land_mask, 4, 1) for col in ["LATITUDE", "LONGITUDE"]: self.flags[f"{col}_QC"] = ("N_MEASUREMENTS", flag_values) return self.flags
[docs] def plot_diagnostics(self): if "LATITUDE" not in self.data or "LONGITUDE" not in self.data: return matplotlib.use("tkagg") fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12, 8), dpi=200) # Plot land boundaries self.world.plot(ax=ax, facecolor="lightgray", edgecolor="black", alpha=0.3) for i in range(10): if "LATITUDE_QC" not in self.flags: continue # Plot by flag number mask = self.flags["LATITUDE_QC"] == i if not mask.any(): continue # Plot the data ax.plot( self.data["LONGITUDE"].values[mask.values], self.data["LATITUDE"].values[mask.values], c=flag_cols[i], ls="", marker="o", label=f"{i}", ) ax.set( xlabel="Longitude", ylabel="Latitude", title="Position On Land Test", ) ax.legend(title="Flags", loc="upper right") fig.tight_layout() plt.show(block=True)