examples/plots/Simplified_Image_Plot.py
# Copyright (c) 2019 MetPy Developers.
# Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
"""
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Simple Plotting
===============
Demonstrate the use of MetPy's simplified plotting interface.
Plots a sample satellite image file.
"""
import xarray as xr
from metpy.cbook import get_test_data
from metpy.io import GiniFile
from metpy.plots import ImagePlot, MapPanel, PanelContainer
data = xr.open_dataset(GiniFile(get_test_data('NHEM-MULTICOMP_1km_IR_20151208_2100.gini')))
img = ImagePlot()
img.data = data
img.field = 'IR'
img.colormap = 'Greys_r'
panel = MapPanel()
panel.plots = [img]
pc = PanelContainer()
pc.panels = [panel]
pc.show()