https://sunpy.org/ 2026-04-16T16:25:24.009424+00:00 ABlog https://sunpy.org/posts/2018/2018-02-25-ndcube/ 2018-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 Stuart Mumford <section id="ndcube-1-0-released"> <p>The SunPy project is very happy to announce the release of a new package “ndcube”.</p> <p>ndcube is a package built for handling, inspecting and visualizing a wide variety of data, of any number of dimensions, along with coordinate information described by FITS-WCS. The <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.sunpy.org/projects/ndcube/en/stable/api/ndcube.NDCube.html#ndcube.NDCube" title="(in ndcube v2.4.0)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NDCube</span></code></a> object is based on the astropy <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/api/astropy.nddata.NDData.html#astropy.nddata.NDData" title="(in Astropy v7.2)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NDData</span></code></a> class, and adds functionality for slicing both the data and the WCS simultaneously, plotting with matplotlib and support for extra coordinate information along any of the axes not described by WCS.</p> <p>In addition to this the ndcube package provides the <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.sunpy.org/projects/ndcube/en/stable/api/ndcube.NDCubeSequence.html#ndcube.NDCubeSequence" title="(in ndcube v2.4.0)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NDCubeSequence</span></code></a> class for representing sequences of <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.sunpy.org/projects/ndcube/en/stable/api/ndcube.NDCube.html#ndcube.NDCube" title="(in ndcube v2.4.0)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NDCube</span></code></a> objects where the coordinate information may or may not align, and accessing these sequences in a way consistent with a singular cube.</p> <p>The ndcube development has been lead by Daniel Ryan with contributions from the following people:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p>Daniel Ryan</p></li> <li><p>Ankit Baruah</p></li> <li><p>Stuart Mumford</p></li> <li><p>Mateo Inchaurrandieta</p></li> <li><p>Nabil Freij</p></li> <li><p>Drew Leonard</p></li> <li><p>Shelbe Timothy</p></li> </ul> <p>A lot of the design and development of ndcube was done as part of Ankit’s Google Summer of Code project in the summer of 2017.</p> <p>For more information about ndcube see the <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.sunpy.org/projects/ndcube/en/stable/">documentation</a>.</p> <p>ndcube can be installed from pip or conda using the following commands:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ conda install -c conda-forge ndcube $ pip install ndcube </pre></div> </div> </section>

The SunPy project is very happy to announce the release of a new package “ndcube”.

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