An event reader for LOFAR

NuRadioReco/examples/LOFAR/run_lofar_example.py

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+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+import NuRadioReco.modules.io.lofar.readLOFAR
+from NuRadioReco.utilities import units
+
+import logging
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+logger = logging.getLogger('readARAexample')
+
+# Initialize the reader with the file you want to read
+LOFARreader = NuRadioReco.modules.io.lofar.readLOFAR.readLOFAR(['/Users/anelles/Experiments/LOFAR/A_NuRadioReco_Test/L78862_D20121205T051644.039Z_CS002_R000_tbb.h5'],DAL=1)
+
+for iE, event in enumerate(LOFARreader.run()):
+    print(event.get_id())
+
+

NuRadioReco/modules/io/lofar/README.md

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+First attempt in writing an LOFAR reader to look into using NuRadioReco for LOFAR
+
+The files:
+metadata.py, raw_tbb_IO.py, readLOFAR.py,  utilities.py
+have been copied from Brian Hare
+https://github.com/Bhare8972/LOFAR-LIM/blob/master/LIM_scripts/
+
+His python package is very useful, but does not follow python convention
+for modules, which it is copied rather than imported. This should be worked
+on in the future.
+
+The files also need LOFAR metadata to be downloaded:
+https://github.com/Bhare8972/LOFAR-LIM/blob/master/LIM_scripts/data.tar.gz
+and un-tarred in the folder.
+
+