by Dean Summers, Lampata
From climate extremes to biodiversity loss, scientists must collaborate at a global scale, reusing one another’s work more than ever before. Open science makes that possible by building a culture of open collaboration at an unprecedented scale. It is reshaping how research is done: making data, methods, and results transparent, accessible by all. It’s a shift from siloed studies to collective intelligence.
Recognising this, the European Space Agency (ESA) made open science one of its priorities in its 2024 strategy. One of the solutions for delivering that vision is EarthCODE (https://earthcode.esa.int/), the Earth Science Collaborative Open Development Environment.
EarthCODE is designed to help researchers not just share data, but actively collaborate on it. EarthCODE integrates a federation of modern EO cloud platforms, making it easy to find and publish FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) datasets and reproducible workflows. This data is openly available through the EarthCODE Open Science Catalog (https://opensciencedata.esa.int/).
EarthCODE is crucial because it provides Earth scientists with a collaborative, cloud-based environment to develop, share, and reproduce research workflows. By automating FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles it turns them from an aspiration to a daily exercise, which ensures that data, code, and documentation are preserved and accessible, enhancing transparency and reproducibility in Earth Observation science. This facilitates more efficient collaboration across disciplines and institutions, accelerating scientific discovery and supporting informed policy and decision-making on global environmental challenges.
One of these EarthCODE platforms is the open-source Pangeo ecosystem (https://pangeo.io/) for pythonic Earth Observation data science, which scales analyses from local small clusters to petabyte, planetary scale analysis. Under a programme of and funded by the European Space Agency Lampata’s engineers have integrated the Pangeo ecosystem and community, wiring up secure, elastic Dask clusters and user-friendly Jupyter environments so scientists can move rapidly from small scale experimentation to large-scale exploitation. We’re proud to be contributing to EarthCODE as part of a wider consortium of partners by directly working with the wider open-source and science community to support its growth and adoption.
Disclaimer: The view expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Space Agency.
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We actively seek out the most critical problems—the ones that threaten not only major global institutions but also the people they serve. This has led us to work with space agencies, research institutions, sustainability analysts, and enterprises seeking an innovative edge.
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