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R package to retrieve NASA datasets 🛰
Basically an R port of https://github.com/bmtgoncalves/pyNASA, seems a pretty natural fit for rOpenSci
Calling all #NASADatanauts! @jasdumas @ldecicco-USGS @AmeliaMN @eringrand @LucyMcGowan
yes! this has been on my todo list probably pulling from here: https://data.nasa.gov/browse?limitTo=datasets 🚀
Yes!
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On Apr 30, 2017, at 2:16 PM, LucyMcGowan [email protected] wrote:
yes! this has been on my todo list probably pulling from here: https://data.nasa.gov/browse?limitTo=datasets 🚀
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Yeah, I've been looking for a way to contribute, and this is a natural fit. I've led a similar effort for USGS data (sorry for the non-unique package name...):
https://github.com/USGS-R/dataRetrieval
I can try to contribute my experience of what has worked well in that package (...and what didn't!)
I'm not going to the Unconf but I've been talking about collaborate with this with @bmtgoncalves. Is there a way that I can be involved?
@d4tagirl A couple of people have participated in the unconf remotely in the past. The key would be good communication with the project team, using something like https://appear.in/ for video chat.
I am on board! I work at a NASA data center (https://daac.ornl.gov/ ) and we could start here for the Earth science data: https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/opensearch/ I would also like to talk about packages to retrieve actual data (as opposed to metadata) using webservices such as OPeNDAP. we could start here: https://thredds.daac.ornl.gov/thredds/catalogs/ornldaac/ornldaac.html
Count me in for this! @alisonboyer, I agree retrieving actual data would be even more interesting
I had started working on this package interfacing the NASA API of MODIS Level 1 and Atmosphere data products. Not sure how much it overlaps with other datasets presented here, maybe not at all? In any case, if anyone is interested, I can move it to ropenscilabs for the unconf.
@maelle Your LAADS package looks cool. This is exactly the type of package that we need. The MODISTools package was my inspiration, and I think we need multiple packages to hit different data.
Cool, happy to collaborate! MODISTools has a slightly misleading name IMO since it doesn't hit all MODIS data 😊
We use raadsync to download data from a variety of sources via different methods (mostly wget) and includes remote sensing files from the NASA ocean colour website:
https://github.com/AustralianAntarcticDataCentre/raadsync
It's not polished sufficiently for general use but it's not hard to set up and it's proven to work very well - we'd appreciate any feedback or interest in it. We register datasets in JSON with the information required about how to discover new/changed files, the download method, whether unpacking is required after download.
@alisonboyer regarding opendap, been trying to get an opendap client dappr https://github.com/ropensci/dappr to a useable state for a while - could be part of this
i'm so sorry to miss the unconf this year. If you all decide to pursue this topic will you loop me in via video chat? I really would love to contribute
Hi everyone (and @jimhester and @d4tagirl in particular)
Thank you for the interest in pyNASA. While I'm fairly comfortable using R, I've never tried writing a package. If there's anything I can do to help, just let me know!
Best
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