Reading Africa minicubes

[Frankie91]

Good Morning,

Hope this is the right place to ask this question. Should this package also be used to open and read the provisional Africa minicubes? if yes, how? Thank you in advance!

[crequena]

Hey @Frankie91 ,

This package is not meant to handle the provisional Africa minicubes hosted in Zenodo. For them you will need to load them using the Xarray library.

However, you can use the final Africa minicubes (EarthNet 2023), which the earthnet-toolkit can handle. You can do so like this:

pip install earthnet

import earthnet as entk
minicube = entk.load_minicube(
    dataset = "earthnet2023",
    split = "test", 
    id = "36PZQ6711")

minicube # explore, have fun!

You can take a look at the available locations on the final dataset in this explorer (grab the minicube names from it as well) https://www.earthnet.tech/earthnet2023_map.html

If you want to create new minicubes , you can use this repo's package, the earthnet-minicuber. You can create a minicube following this recipe:

import earthnet_minicuber as emc

specs = {
    "lon_lat": (43.598946, 3.087414), 
    "xy_shape": (256, 256), 
    "resolution": 10, 
    "time_interval": "2021-07-01/2021-07-31",
    "providers": [
        {
            "name": "s2",
            "kwargs": {"bands": ["B02", "B03", "B04", "B8A"],
            "best_orbit_filter": True, 
            "brdf_correction": True, 
            "cloud_mask": True, 
            "aws_bucket": "planetary_computer"}
        },
        {
            "name": "era5esdl",
            "kwargs": {"bands": ["t2m", "tp"]} 
        }
        ]
}

minicube = emc.load_minicube(specs, compute = True)
emc.plot_rgb(minicube)