Leveraging NASA's Open-Source Earthdata Infrastructure to Empower Environmental Justice Researchers
Creators: name: Elizabeth R. Joyner
name: Helen Blue Parache
name: Sheyenne Kirkland
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Nation Data Science Alliance (NDSA) – South Central Workshop

Time:  November 14, 2024

Location: 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 Nov. 12th to access VEDA’s JupyterHub computing environment during the session. 

PREREQUISITE:  



Sign-up for GitHub



Navigate to https://github.com/.

Click Sign up.

Follow the prompts to create your personal account.



Complete the following form: https://forms.gle/k71rE3TQ5SULVQNp7 



VEDA team invites* you to the GitHub Group. 



Once your handle is added, *check the email associated with your GitHub account for an invitation to join the GitHub Group.

ACCEPT your invitation to the group to gain temporary access to the computing environment. 

Clone the repository using the following link: https://hub.openveda.cloud/hub/user-redirect/git-pull?repo=https://github.com/nasa-veda-workshops/esip-2024&urlpath=lab/tree/esip-2024/&branch=main 

For questions, please reach out to veda@uah.edu with the subject line "NDSA EJ 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. 

Sign up for Earthdata Login


Agenda: 








          TimeCentral Time Zone



Description





9-9:30 AM





Welcome, Overview of the Day, Outcomes, Resources

Ice Breaker/Mentimeter

NASA Earth Science Data Introductions - Environmental Justice Connections






9:30-10:10 AM



Overview: NASA Environmental Justice Data Search Interface (EJDSI)





10:10 - 10:20 AM





Break out rooms (Groups of 5 - Randomly assigned)

Time to explore 

Reflect on the questions in Google Sheet






10:20 - 10:30 AM

Share out




10:30-10:45AM





Break






10:45- 11:15 AM





Overview: VEDA Dashboard - Environmental Justice Thematic Area: NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA)

Overview of JupyterHub






11:15 - 11:45 AM





Break out rooms (Two Groups)

Time to explore 

Reflect on the questions in Google Sheet






11:45 AM -12PM





Whole Group Discussion & Share out

Q&A/Survey







Resources

Environmental Justice Data Search Interface

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.




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



NASA Environmental Justice Data Search Interface  (BETA)



The new interface enables users to conduct a general search or search within eight focus areas, such as Disasters, Climate Change, Extreme Heat, Urban Flooding, and Water Availability. 






VEDA

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.

VEDA Data Catalog

VEDA User Documentation



How to use our ecosystem for cloud-enabled open science with Earth data at NASA



VEDA JupyterHub

VEDA Example Notebooks

VEDA Wiki 

VEDA Contacts:





Email: 





Dr. Brian Freitag brian.m.freitag@nasa.gov 




Dr. Aaron Kaulfus aaron.s.kaulfus@nasa.gov
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earthaccess is a Python library to search, download or stream NASA Earth science data with just a few lines of code



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Connect with Us:



Elizabeth Joyner, LinkedIn, elizabeth.r.joyner@NASA.gov

Helen B. Parache, LinkedIn

Sheyenne Kirkland, LinkedIn, sheyenne.kirkland@uah.edu