Eradiate Documentation
======================

**Date**: |today| |
**Version**: |version| |
:doc:`src/release_notes/index`

**Useful links**:
`Home <https://www.eradiate.eu>`_ |
`Source repository <https://github.com/eradiate/eradiate>`_ |
`Issues & ideas <https://github.com/eradiate/eradiate/issues>`_ |
`Q&A support <https://github.com/eradiate/eradiate/discussions>`_

**Docs versions**:
`stable <https://eradiate.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_ |
`latest <https://eradiate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_

Eradiate is a modern radiative transfer simulation software package written in
Python and C++17. It relies on a radiometric kernel based on the
`Mitsuba 3 <https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/mitsuba3>`_ rendering system
:cite:`Jakob2022DrJit,Jakob2022Mitsuba3`.

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   .. grid-item-card:: :fas:`download` User Guide
      :link: sec-user_guide
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      Learn about Eradiate, how to get it and how to use it.

   .. grid-item-card:: :fas:`graduation-cap` Tutorials
      :link: sec-tutorials
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      A practical introduction to Eradiate.

   .. grid-item-card:: :fas:`database` Data guide
      :link: sec-data-intro
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      Information about data formats and shipped datasets.

   .. grid-item-card:: :fas:`file-code` Reference
      :link: sec-reference_api
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      The complete reference.

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   rst/user_guide/index
   tutorials/index

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   rst/reference_api/index
   rst/reference_plugins/index
   src/reference_cli.md
   src/release_notes/index.md
   rst/bibliography

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   :caption: Data

   Introduction <rst/data/intro>
   Atmosphere: Aerosols / particles <rst/data/aerosols_particles>
   Atmosphere: Molecular absorption <rst/data/absorption_databases>
   Atmosphere: Thermophysical properties <rst/data/atmosphere_thermoprops>
   Solar irradiance <rst/data/solar_irradiance>
   Spectral response functions <rst/data/srf>
   RAMI benchmark scenes <rst/data/rami_scenes>

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   rst/contributing
   rst/dependencies
   rst/maintainer_guide
   rst/developer_guide/index