Simple script for generating satellite day track shapefile

Inputs are: year, month, day, step in minutes between track points, two TLE lines, output file path

example for cmd:

python orbital_track_shapefile_creator.py -y 2014 -m 6 -d 21 -s 5 -u "1 25994U 99068A 14172.15370853 .00000261 00000-0 68078-4 0 9990" -l "2 25994 098.2112 246.8346 0001762 090.7383 269.4028 14.57122372771643" -o "E:\track1.shp"

example for python usage:

import orbital_track_shapefile_creator

orbital_track_shapefile_creator.create_orbital_track_shapefile_for_day (2014,6,21,5,'1 25994U 99068A 14172.15370853 .00000261 00000-0 68078-4 0 9990', '2 25994 098.2112 246.8346 0001762 090.7383 269.4028 14.57122372771643','E:\track.shp')

using pyorbital lib by: Esben S. Nielsen esn@dmi.dk; Adam Dybbroe adam.dybbroe@smhi.se; Martin Raspaud martin.raspaud@smhi.se

using shapefile lib by: jlawhead@geospatialpython.com

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by Eduard Kazakov silenteddie@gmail.com, 2016