Introduction¶

Overview¶

The Open Data Cube is a collection of software designed to:

Catalogue large amounts of Earth Observation data
Provide a Python based API for high performance querying and data access
Give scientists and other users easy ability to perform Exploratory Data Analysis
Allow scalable continent scale processing of the stored data
Track the provenance of all the contained data to allow for quality control and updates

The Open Data Cube software is based around the datacube-core library.

datacube-core is an open source Python library, released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Continent or global-scale processing of data on a High Performance Computing supercomputer cluster.

Allows interactive analysis of data, such as through a Jupyter Notebook.

Using ODC to serve WMS, WCS, or custom tools (such as polygon drill time series analysis.

Running environmental analysis applications on a laptop, suitable for field work, or outreach to a developing region.