Installation
This page explains how to install VisuSat and prepare your environment.
Prerequisites
Python 3.9 or higher
A virtual environment (recommended)
Git installed on your system
Install VisuSat
VisuSat is available on PyPl:
pip install visusat
This will directly install visusat as a Python package with required dependencies.
Verify the installation:
python -c "import visusat; print(visusat.__version__)"
Development installation
You can also install Visusat as a GitHub project for development :
git clone https://github.com/nsasso56-cell/VisuSat
cd VisuSat
uv sync
This will create a virtual environment (.venv/) and install all required packages.
Activate the environment:
source .venv/bin/activate
Verify the installation:
python -c "import visusat; print(visusat.__version__)"
Optional: Install extra tools
To build the documentation locally:
uv pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
make -C docs html
Next steps
Configure EUMETSAT & Copernicus credentials: Credentials configuration
Explore the API reference
Run example scripts in
examples/