This is the official content repository for the online course 'Cubes & Clouds - Cloud Native Open Data Sciences for Earth Observation' hosted on EO College.
The Massive Open Online Course 'Cubes & Clouds - Cloud Native Open Data Sciences for Earth Observation' teaches the concepts of data cubes, cloud platforms and open science in the context of earth observation.
It targets Earth Science students and researchers who want to increase their technical capabilities onto the newest standards in EO computing, as well as Data Scientists who want to dive into the world of EO and apply their technical background to a new field. Before starting, prerequisites are a general knowledge of EO and python programming.
The course explains the concepts of data cubes, EO cloud platforms and open science by applying them to a typical EO workflow from data discovery, data processing up to sharing the results in an open and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) way. An engaging mixture of videos, animated content, lectures, hands-on exercises and quizzes transmits the content.
flowchart LR
subgraph Concepts
A[1.1 What is a Cloud Platform]-->B[1.2 What is a Data Cube];
B-->C[1.3 What is Open Science];
end
subgraph Discovery
D[2.1 Data Discovery]-->E[2.2 Data Properties];
E-->F[2.3 Data Access];
F-->G[2.4 Formats and Performance]
end
subgraph Process&Share
H[3.1 Processing]-->I[3.2 Validation];
I-->J[3.3 Sharing];
end
Concepts --> Discovery
Discovery --> Process&Share
After finishing the participant will understand the theoretical concepts of cloud native EO processing and have gained practical experience by conducting an end-to-end EO workflow. The participant will be capable of independently using cloud platforms to approach EO related research questions and be confident in how to share research by adhering to the concepts of open science.
cubes_and_clouds.mp4
We're happy to receive your contributions to lessons, exercises, bug reports etc.
- Check out the CONTRIBUTING.md contributing guide to learn how you can contribute!
- The full list of all contributors is in the CONTRIBUTORS.md
- LIAScript: Use the link to the .md files and copy them into LIAscript. It will give you an online lecture directly.
- Obsidian: Add obsidian file toplevel to create your void, or add the course to an existing one.
- Bookdown: You can render the course usin bookdown or similar to have a rendered version of the markdown files in the repo. Some work needed to do that.
Where not stated explicitly otherwise this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 1.1 What is a Platform
- TBD
- 1.2 What is Open Science
- TBD
- 1.3 Open Science
- Kristina Vrouwenvelder, AGU
- Shelley Stall, AGU
This project is funded by the European Space Agency through the program EXPRO+ with the contract number 4000138850/22/I-DT
The project is currently work in progress.