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Trouble Exporting a CSV File from SeaDAS

by kalimkrafs » Tue Sep 24, 2024 9:22 pm America/New_York

Hello,

I'm a student at MIT working on a project (using SeaDAS ver 8.30 on an M2 Mac Sonoma 14.5), I'm trying to export my input file (which is an MTL.txt file) as a CSV. The steps I took to do this were as follows:

SeaDAS-Toolbox >> SeaDAS Processors >> l2gen

At this point, I input my MTL.txt file as the ifile, went to the "products" tab to select the relevant products for the project (rhos, color_a, cloud_albedo, diatoms_hirata, dinoflagellates_hirata, greenalgae_hirata, and primnesiophytes_hirata), selected "apply" and then "run."

Once l2gen finished running, I selected the output file in the "file manager" section and then took the following steps:

File >> Export >> CSV >> Export Product

After the file had finished exporting (which took approximately a half day), I opened the file (LANDSAT8_OLI.20180423T152010.L2.OC.csv) in Numbers (or Excel) and it had no data other than a header.

1. Why am I not able to export a .csv file with data? Am I missing a step when exporting from SeaDAS?

2. Additionally I am not able to open a .csv file using Numbers or excel but can access it in python. The error message I get is 'file too large.' Since I'm using python this isn't my primary issue, but I'm curious.

For context, I have not been able in the past to open other .csv files (exported from someone else) in Numbers. However, using python, I have been able to access the data (so I know it works). I also noticed after opening the file in Numbers that it had all of the same headers as the other CSV files, but beyond that, the rest of the file was empty (as was the file icon in Finder).

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you for your time,

Kali

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Re: Trouble Exporting a CSV File from SeaDAS

by OB General Science - guoqingw » Fri Oct 18, 2024 12:01 am America/New_York

This question has already been addressed. You can find the answer here: viewtopic.php?t=6043

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