fadimoubayed / cb-parser

Parses Carl Büttner's data and converts it to csv format

CB-Parser

Parses Carl Büttner's data Excel sheets and converts them to csv format

Procedure

• Read the Excel sheet as a dataframe using Pandas and properly rename the columns (Remove the spaces)
• Get the first valid value of the first column. This value is used to remove the empty rows at the beginning of the dataframe
• Drop the NA values in the dataframe and only keep the valid values
• Save the result to a csv file

Second parser

• Converts the latitude and longitude from degrees-minutes-seconds to degrees

• Calculates distance between each set of coordinates using the haversine formula using the following function:

  https://pypi.org/project/haversine/

• Calculates the speed of the ship between each set of coordinates in kilometers per hour

• Calculates the bearing in degrees between each set of coordinates using the following function:

  https://pyproj4.github.io/pyproj/stable/api/geod.html#pyproj-geod

How to use

In terminal type:

python3 name_of_the_script.py path_to_excel_files

Example:

python3 parse_excel_files.py ./Excel_Files/