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Published July 23, 2024 | Version v1
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Leveraging NASA's Open-Source Earthdata Infrastructure to Empower Environmental Justice Researchers

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • 2. ROR icon Science Systems and Applications (United States)
  • 3. ROR icon Marshall Space Flight Center
  • 4. ROR icon University of Alabama in Huntsville

Description

Time:  July 23, 2024, 4-5:30 PM ET

Location: ESIP 2024 Summer Meeting Asheville, NC,  Crown Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Dr Asheville, NC 28806 (Mt. Mitchell Room -in person), Breakout Session (online)

Lead Organizers: Elizabeth Joyner, Community Coordinator, NASA Earth Science Data Systems; Jerika Christman Chung, NASA IMPACT

Presenters: 

  • Elizabeth R. Joyner (NASA ESDS)
  • Helen B. Parache (NASA IMPACT: EJDSI)
  • Sheyenne Kirkland (NASA IMPACT: VEDA)

Prerequisites:

  • Some level of experience with remotely sensed data, experience with Python
  • UPDATE! The NASA IMPACT team asks that all attendees complete the following steps prior JULY 17th to access VEDA’s JupyterHub computing environment during the session. 

    PREREQUISITE:  

    1. Sign-up for GitHub
      1. Navigate to https://github.com/.
      2. Click Sign up.
      3. Follow the prompts to create your personal account.
    2. Complete the following form: https://forms.gle/HSQm4U7N2pZj6AQb6
      1. VEDA team invites* you to the GitHub Group. 
    3. Once your handle is added, *check the email associated with your GitHub account for an invitation to join the GitHub Group.
    4. ACCEPT your invitation to the group to gain temporary access to the computing environment. 
    For questions, please reach out to veda@uah.edu with the subject line "ESIP 2024 Workshop".  

Recommended Ways for Participants to Prepare: 

  • Users can also choose to review our VEDA Docs to learn more about VEDA and its components. 
  • Prepare to bring Fully Charged Laptop

DRAFT Agenda: 

          Time

Description

4-4:10 PM
  • Welcome & Audience Intro, Overview of the Workshop
  • Review the Zenodo

4:10 -4:35 PM

4:35 - 5:20 PM

5:20 - 5:30 PM
  • Whole Group Discussion & Share out
  • Q&A/Survey

Technical info

Resources

Environmental Justice Data Search Interface

  • Science Discovery Engine: The Science Discovery Engine (SDE) enables discovery of over 80k open science datasets, software packages, and documents across SMD.

VEDA

Earthdata:

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Series information

Making climate and environmental justice data more usable and accessible with NASA's cutting-edge data exploration infrastructure! This hands-on workshop equips you with two powerful open-source resources from NASA:

NASA Environmental Justice Data Search Interface (EJDSI) powered by the Science Discovery Engine: This open-source platform seamlessly integrates the existing NASA Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program's EJ Data Catalog in a user-friendly format. SDE empowers researchers and communities with:

  • Discovery and Accessibility: Users can easily find relevant Earth science and socioeconomic datasets curated related to the following focus areas: Climate Change, Disasters, Extreme Heat, Food Availability, Human Dimensions, Health & Air Quality, Urban Flooding, Water Availability.
  • Collaborative and interdisciplinary science: EJDSI fosters collaborative research by enabling data sharing and analysis across disciplines.

VEDA Dashboard - Environmental Justice Thematic Area: NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is a cloud-based, open-source science cyberinfrastructure that lowers the barrier to entry for engagement with scientific data. VEDA combines accessible scientific context through storytelling with interactive data exploration and analysis services, such that expert and non-expert users can transparently switch between derived findings and original data, including access to cloud-based compute resources. VEDA is also a pathfinder project for leveraging cloud-native geospatial technologies. Its dedicated thematic area offers:

  • Data integration: VEDA provides users with opportunities to develop holistic insights of environmental issues in EJ communities by uniting diverse datasets from across NASA including socioeconomic data, Earth observations and machine learning tools.
  • Actionable insights: Users explore and visualize environmental parameters, access data through Jupyter Hub, analyze phenomena, and inform future decision-making using data driven insights.
  • Cloud Data Analysis: VEDA provides open data exploration via Jupyter notebooks, and an analysis hub for authorized users to perform advanced cloud data analysis with computational resources. All code supporting VEDA is fully open sourced and available for examination.

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Dates

Updated
2024-07-23

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/orgs/NASA-IMPACT/repositories?language=&q=veda-&sort=&type=all
Programming language
Python
Development Status
Active