earthaccess: Accelerating NASA Earthdata sci through open, collaborative development
summary
A Python library that lets users search, download or stream NASA Earthdata with three lines of code handles NASA auth, CMR catalog queries (about 23,000 datasets), and returns results as files or objects usable by xarray and pandas. It hides cloud/S3 complexity, negotiating per-data-center APIs, and already enables plotting and workflows; roadmap focuses on scaling to thousands–millions of granules with distributed authentication, optimized reads, IO caching, and multi-language SDKs.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00earthaccess and NASA Earthdata
- 1:09Why earthaccess was created
- 2:36Challenge of accessing NASA Earthdata
- 8:29NASA cloud migration and API complexity
- 11:01NASA and Openscapes collaboration
- 12:11How earthaccess simplifies access
- 14:01earthaccess in action
- 15:30Adoption and future of earthaccess
- 16:58Reducing complexity in science
- 17:46Q&A
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