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.
Use Cases¶
Large-scale workflows on HPC¶
Continent or global-scale processing of data on a High Performance Computing supercomputer cluster.
Exploratory Data Analysis¶
Allows interactive analysis of data, such as through a Jupyter Notebook.
Cloud-based Services¶
Using ODC to serve WMS, WCS, or custom tools (such as polygon drill time series analysis.
Standalone Applications¶
Running environmental analysis applications on a laptop, suitable for field work, or outreach to a developing region.