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+To find out how to reference satpy, go to https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/51397392
+and choose your favourite citation format on the bottom of the right hand side-bar.
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 .. image:: https://badge.fury.io/py/satpy.svg
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 The Satpy package is a python library for reading and manipulating
 meteorological remote sensing data and writing it to various image and