A Cloud Based, Science Enabling System for Visualizing and Analyzing Earth Science Data

NASA's Global Hydrometeorology Research Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) has been developing a cloud-based visualization and analysis system to display numerous datasets at the same time in three dimensions. Building from GHRC's diverse Earth science data holdings, particularly field campaigns, this effort has resulted in a stand-alone system called the Field Campaign Explorer (FCX) that enables users to create their own application programming interface (API) plugins and provides Jupyter Notebook data recipes that allow users to see how files can be opened and manipulated. While developed for work with field campaign data, FCX is capable of working with a broad range of datasets beyond those associated with field campaigns. This webinar covers the origins of this work, showcases example workflows, and highlights current efforts to develop this into an enterprise-level tool for dataset visualization and analysis. *Field Campaign Explorer: https://ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov/fcx *Presentation Slide Deck: https://go.nasa.gov/4f4xjMn *FCX Capabilities demo (slide 8) https://go.nasa.gov/3BFQbCP *FCX Playground Demo: https://go.nasa.gov/3NtFkP9 *Example Jupyter Notebook Output video: https://go.nasa.gov/3NsJC9r Chapters 00:00 Introduction/Webinar Logistics 03:18 Outline/Speaker Intro 07:19 Introduction NASA's GHRC DAAC and Data Holdings 12:25 Field Campaign Explorer, and Challenges it Addresses 18:14 FCX Playground 25:49 FCX User Benefits 26:35 earthaccess walk-through 27:54 Metadata Viewer for netCDF files 28:14 Demo: Field Campaign Capabilities, Data Discovery and Access 29:49 Jupyter Hub Notebooks in the Cloud 33:12 Looking forward 36:20 Demo: Installation of Playground Package and Jupyter Notebook Output 46:19 Question-and-Answer Period