Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Craterpy is an open-source Python package that reads impact crater databases, defines spatial regions of interest, and extracts data associated with each crater into standard Python data structures.It provides a simple and consistent toolkit for parsing, cleaning, and georeferencing crater data into Geopandas GeoDataFrames, and allows visualization and extraction of statistics from georeferenced raster imagery of planetary bodies across the Solar System (Figure 1).Craterpy simplifies many error-prone manual tasks like defining crater regions of interest in the correct projection, reprojecting to the format of the desired raster and handling pole-crossing or meridian-crossing geometries.Craterpy helps users access and analyze crater statistical data from lists of craters that can number in the millions from planetary images that can be GBs to TBs in size.All of these features come from a clean and efficient object-oriented user interface, built to be interoperable with the planetary geospatial Python stack and Geographic Information System (GIS) software.
DOI: 10.21105/joss.08663
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414600167