Scott Henderson

Screenshot illustrating how this currently works: [](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/scottyhq/intake-stac/stackvrt) :point_left: Launch a binder notebook on this branch

> If dropping fsspec use and going straight to urls, we could also leverage the STAC metadata to create xarray objects with dask.delayed and dask.array.from_delayed that would be fast. Here...

> Do you think stackstac could be helpful here? I could imagine intake-stac using it under the hood to generate the xarray Definitely! I abandoned this PR for a bit...

> is there anything that this would handle that stackstac doesn't? At a glance it seems like it already handles everything, though I might be missing things. This approach is...

> FWIW, my hope is that intake-stac can be a pretty simple wrapper around pystac, pystac-client, and stackstac. Ideally we limit the complexity here. In full agreement :) I just...

Since there will be lots of valuable data like this that is not in a cloud-optimized data store and format, I think it makes sense to have a `download()` method...

> What is contained in the .netcdf file, is it user/password for the HTTP call? cat ~/.netrc looks like this: ``` machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov login MYUSERNAME password MYPASSWORD ``` It looks...

related PR over in sat-stac https://github.com/sat-utils/sat-stac/pull/62

Hi @martindurant - after trying a few other approaches to see how this works behind the scenes I'm a bit confused. The following code works using aiohttp directly: ```python import...

thanks for you help @martindurant ! there are definitely two things to figure out: 1) how to correctly pass username and password explicitly to httpfilesystem (the last code block seems...