via conda / mamba
MintPy is available on the conda-forge channel. The latest released version can be installed via conda
as:
conda install -c conda-forge mintpy
or via mamba
as:
mamba install -c conda-forge mintpy
or via docker
Docker allows one to run MintPy in a dedicated container, which is essentially an efficient virtual machine, and to be independent of the platform OS. First, install docker if you have not already done so. Then run the following to pull the latest stable released container image version from MintPy GitHub Container Registry to your local machine:
docker pull ghcr.io/insarlab/mintpy:latest
Check docker.md for more details on Docker container image usage, e.g. pulling the development version and running in a shell or Jupyter server.
or via apt (for Linux Debian)
MintPy is available in the main archive of the Debian GNU/Linux OS. It can be installed by using your favorite package manager or running the following command:
apt install mintpy
The same procedure, in principle, can be used in Ubuntu and all the other Debian derivatives. Check the Debian GIS Project page for more detailed usage.
Note: The installation note below is tested on Linux and macOS, and is still experimental on Windows (may have bugs).
MintPy is written in Python 3 and relies on several Python modules, check the requirements.txt file for details. We recommend using conda or macports to install the python environment and the prerequisite packages, because of the convenient management and default performance setting with numpy/scipy and pyresample.
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Run the following in your terminal to download the development version of MintPy:
cd ~/tools
git clone https://github.com/insarlab/MintPy.git
Install miniconda if you have not already done so. You may need to close and restart the shell for changes to take effect.
# use wget or curl to download in the command line or click from the web browser
# for macOS, use Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh instead.
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -b -p ~/tools/miniconda3
~/tools/miniconda3/bin/conda init bash
Install the dependencies into a custom existing environment [recommended] by running:
# To speedup, try "conda install mamba", then use "mamba install" to replace "conda install" below
# Add "gdal'>=3'" below to install extra dependencies if you use ARIA, FRInGE, HyP3 or GMTSAR
# Add "isce2" below to install extra dependencies if you use ISCE-2
conda install -c conda-forge --file ~/tools/MintPy/requirements.txt
Or install the dependencies to a new environment, e.g. named "insar", by running:
# Add "gdal'>=3'" below to install extra dependencies if you use ARIA, FRInGE, HyP3 or GMTSAR
# Add "isce2" below to install extra dependencies if you use ISCE-2
conda create --name insar --file ~/tools/MintPy/requirements.txt
conda activate insar
via pip [recommended]
We recommend installing MintPy in the "editable" mode. This mode installs the package without copying files to your interpreter directory (e.g. the site-packages
directory), thus, one could "edit" the source code and have changes take effect immediately without having to rebuild and reinstall.
python -m pip install -e ~/tools/MintPy
or via path setup
Add below in your source file, e.g. ~/.bash_profile
for bash users or ~/.cshrc
for csh/tcsh users:
if [ -z ${PYTHONPATH+x} ]; then export PYTHONPATH=""; fi
export MINTPY_HOME=~/tools/MintPy
export PATH=${PATH}:${MINTPY_HOME}/src/mintpy/cli
export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:${MINTPY_HOME}/src
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Install Xcode with command line tools, if you have not already done so.
- Install
Xcode
from App store Install
command line tools
within XCode and agree to the terms of license.- Install XQuartz, then restart the terminal.
xcode-select --install -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/
sudo xcodebuild -license
Install MintPy via conda, which is the same as the instruction for Linux.
Or install MintPy via MacPorts
Same as the instruction for Linux, except for the "b. Install dependencies" section, which is as below. Note that the installation procedure via MacPorts has not been maintained since Sep 2022, and will likely be phased out at some point, since conda/mamba works seamlessly on both MacOS and Linux.
Install macports if you have not done so. Add the following at the bottom of your ~/.bash_profile
file:
# MacPorts Installer addition on 2017-09-02_at_01:27:12: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:${PATH}
export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:${MANPATH}
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.
Update the port tree with the following command. If your network prevents the use of rsync or svn via HTTP of the port tree, try Portfile Sync via a Snapshot Tarball.
sudo port selfupdate
Install the dependencies by running the following:
# install dependencies with macports
# use "port -N install" to use the safe default for prompt questions
sudo port install $(cat MintPy/docs/ports.txt)
# install dependencies not available on macports: pysolid, pykml, pykdtree, pyresample, cdsapi
sudo -H /opt/local/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/insarlab/PySolid.git
sudo -H /opt/local/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/insarlab/PyAPS.git
sudo -H /opt/local/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/tylere/pykml.git
sudo -H /opt/local/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/storpipfugl/pykdtree.git
sudo -H /opt/local/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/pytroll/pyresample.git
sudo -H /opt/local/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/ecmwf/cdsapi.git
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Same as the instruction for Linux, except for the "c. Install MintPy" section, only the pip install
approaches are recommended, as the path setup
approach is not tested.
Set up an account for ERA5 to download weather re-analysis datasets for tropospheric delay correction as described in insarlab/PyAPS.
WEATHER_DIR
: Optionally, if you defined an environment variable named WEATHER_DIR
to contain the path to a directory, MintPy will download the GAM files into the indicated directory. Also, MintPy will look for the GAM files in the directory before downloading a new one to prevent downloading multiple copies if you work with different datasets that cover the same date/time.
We recommend setting the temporary-directory
in your Dask configuration file, e.g. ~/.config/dask/dask.yaml
, by adding the following line, to avoid the potential workspace lock issue. Check the dask.md file for more details on parallel processing.
temporary-directory: /tmp # Directory for local disk like /tmp, /scratch, or /local
# If you share the same machine with others, use the following instead to avoid permission issues.
# temporary-directory: /tmp/{replace_this_with_your_user_name}
We recommend setting the following environment variables, e.g. in your ~/.bash_profile
file, to avoid occasional errors with GDAL VRT and HDF5 files I/O.
export VRT_SHARED_SOURCE=0 # do not share dataset while using GDAL VRT in a multi-threading environment
export HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK=2 # suppress the HDF5 version warning message (0 for abort; 1/2 for printout/suppress warning message)
export HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING=FALSE # request that HDF5 file locks should NOT be used
We recommend activating the tab completion as below if you:
- Use bash or zsh shells
- On Linux or macOS
- Run MintPy in sub-commands style, e.g.
mintpy view
instead ofview.py
activate-global-python-argcomplete --user
On macOS, there is a bash version compatibility issue, which can be fixed as below. If you use the default zsh shell, no fix is needed.
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macOS ships with an older version of the bash shell (run echo $BASH_VERSION
to check the version number), but argcomplete
requires the newer version (>=4.2), which can be installed using Homebrew as:
brew install bash
You will also need to add the bash to /etc/shells
and change your shell via chsh
as:
echo "/usr/local/bin/bash" | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
chsh -s "/usr/local/bin/bash"
Then run activate-global-python-argcomplete --user
again. You may need to add the following to your ~/.bash_profile
file.
# bash completion
if [ -f ~/.bash_completion ]; then
. ~/.bash_completion
fi