Proposal for the inclusion of new packages

[Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino@tiscali.it>]

Dear Sebastiaan dear all,
please find below a list of Python packages that IMHO could be 
interesting to have in Debian GIS.

* MetPy: https://github.com/Unidata/MetPy
  MetPy is a collection of tools in Python for reading, visualizing and
  performing calculations with weather data.

* eodag: https://github.com/CS-SI/eodag
  EODAG (Earth Observation Data Access Gateway) is a command line tool
  and a plugin-oriented Python framework for searching, aggregating
  results and downloading remote sensed images while offering a unified
  API for data access regardless of the data provider.

* A set of packages developed by the Laboratory for Ocean Physics and
  Satellite remote sensing (https://github.com/umr-lops), mostly xarray
  based libraries to access Synthetic Apreture Radar data:
  - xsar: https://github.com/umr-lops/xsar
  - xarray-safe-s1: https://github.com/umr-lops/xarray-safe-s1
  - xarray-safe-rcm: https://github.com/umr-lops/xarray-safe-rcm
  - xradarsat2: https://github.com/umr-lops/xradarsat2
  - xarray-ceos-alos2: https://github.com/umr-lops/xarray-ceos-alos2
  - xsarsea: https://github.com/umr-lops/xsarsea
    + xrft: https://github.com/xgcm/xrft

* A set of tools for working with SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC)
  (https://github.com/stac-utils):
  - pystac: https://github.com/stac-utils/pystac
  - pystac-client: https://github.com/stac-utils/pystac-client
  - stactools: https://github.com/stac-utils/stactools
  - MEDIUM PRIORITY
    + stac-check: https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-check
    + stac-validator: https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-validator
    + stac-vrt: https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-vrt
  - LOW PRIORITY
    - stac-task: https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-task
    - xstac: https://github.com/stac-utils/xstac
    - xpystac: https://github.com/stac-utils/xpystac
    - stac-terminal: https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-terminal
    - stactools packages (https://github.com/stactools-packages)
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/sentinel1
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/sentinel1-grd
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/sentinel2
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/sentinel3
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/sentinel5p
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/landsat
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/palsar
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/esa-worldcover
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/esa-cci-lc
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/cop-dem
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/alos-dem
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/ecmwf-forecast
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/datacube
      + https://github.com/stactools-packages/browse

I think that it would be very important to have in Debian at least 
pystack, pystack-client and stacktools. The other ones are maybe less 
relevant. Maybe we could select a subset and discuss about priorities.

For all the above packages I have not even started the packaging work.
I would like to hear your opinion before doing it.
Of course, it could take some time to have all of them packaged.

Finally the following two packages are new optional dependencies od satpy:

* pint-xarray: https://github.com/xarray-contrib/pint-xarray
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039101
* xarray-datatree: https://github.com/xarray-contrib/datatree
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039097

For that ones the packages are mostly ready and I have already opened 
ITPs. If it is ok for you to sponsor the first upload I can immediately 
create the git repository in salsa.


kind regards
--
Antonio Valentino