High Quality Datasets

[johnkit]

We need more compelling datasets in order to demonstrate Pan3D effectively.

[jourdain]

John tracked down a couple which I added as meta-state in here

@johnkit do you want to add the NASA ones?

[johnkit]

Here's the (current) deal with NASA datasets.

1. We can load them from the local file system. Here are data and config files that work for me

• Data file at https://data.kitware.com/#item/6736493b3b12cd5ccb1d9095 because github refuses to upload even a .tgz with the file. (27 MB too big maybe?)
• Config file: ATL14_GL_0318_01km_003_01_file_config.json

2. HOWEVER we CANNOT load the same NASA datasets from a file server, much to my frustration. What I know so far is that Xarray is requesting a .nc.dds file which, of course, doesn't exist.

[johnkit]

Good news - we can load NASA ICESat-2 datasets after converting to zarr format. I put a config file in our internal slack channel to avoid public disclosure. https://kitware.slack.com/archives/C03DX8B24TU/p1732045659830899