Specklia
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Welcome to Specklia's documentation. If you want to get started quickly, head to the `quickstart <quickstart.html>`_ guide.

Specklia is a cloud-hosted geospatial point cloud database designed for satellite altimetry data,
produced by `Earthwave Ltd <https://earthwave.co.uk/>`_.

When using Earth Observation data, Academics are often presented with deeply nested folder structures containing
headers that need to be manually parsed and files that contain large quantites of data not relevant to the
current study. Specklia solves this problem by allowing users to request only the data within their desired
study region, time period, and other filter criteria, and have it delivered right into their python workspace as a
`GeoDataFrame <https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/reference/api/geopandas.GeoDataFrame.html>`_, without losing any of the headers and traceability information that standard product files provide.

Specklia was produced using funding from the `European Space Agency <https://www.esa.int/>`_, and originally designed
to host the `Cryo-TEMPO EOLIS Products <https://cryotempo-eolis.org/>`_, which are derived from
`CryoSat-2 <https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/CryoSat>`_ data.
More information can be found on `Specklia's homepage <https://specklia.earthwave.co.uk>`_.

If you're interested in influencing Specklia's development, using it in ways that are not
immediately enabled by the python client, or you have other support queries, please contact support@earthwave.co.uk.

Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   quick_start
   datasets_groups_users
   examples
   known_issues
   change_log   
   privacy_policy
   modules