This package provides a platform to collect algorithms and workflows to estimate soil moisture from cosmic ray neutron counters, and compare such estimates with other soil moisture products.

cosmicsense comes as a pure Python package. It requires several dependencies as listed in requirements.txt. We recommend conda for dependency management.

1. Install Miniconda (https://conda.io/miniconda.html).

2. Add the conda-forge channel as the new default:

   $ conda config --add channels conda-forge

3. Create a new conda environment:

   $ conda create --name cosmicsense python=3.7

4. Activate the new environment:

   Linux:

   $ source activate cosmicsense

   Windows:

   > activate cosmicsense

5. Install dependencies:

   (cosmicsense) $ conda install -c conda-forge numpy scipy matplotlib pandas jupyter

6. Install cosmicsense package from source:

   (cosmicsense) $ python setup.py install