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DataCubes for Earth Observation #45

Closed romulogoncalves closed 10 months ago

romulogoncalves commented 5 years ago

In Astronomy we have already used DataCubes to store and query multi-dimensional data. In Earth observation is becoming hot the discussion despite the concept is been there for a while. It got hot because of OpenDataCube.

I was at BiDS'19 and Living Planet Symposium and I heard a lot about OpenDataCube (https://www.opendatacube.org/). At Living Planet Symposium I had the chance to talk with one of the major engineers.

I would like to know if any of you have used it or knows about it? What about Rasdman? Have we used at NLeSC? Does anyone have experience with it. I am asking because I know well Peter Bauman, but I am not so fan of the non-open source approach of Rasdman.

romulogoncalves commented 5 years ago

@jiskattema has shared an interesting tool: Iris - "A powerful, format-agnostic, community-driven Python library for analysing and visualising Earth science data".

Latest documentation: https://scitools.org.uk/iris/docs/latest/

gitHub: https://github.com/SciTools/iris

nielsdrost commented 5 years ago

Hello, we use Iris in MAGIC. It is a core component of ESMValTool. It in turn depends on dask (https://dask.org/), which also powers xarray (http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/)

Iris and xarray are also part of the pangeo community (https://pangeo.io/)

arnikz commented 4 years ago

In the recently granted project RETURN, there is definitely an interest in this but don't know yet about the software experiences/preferences of our project partners.