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

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:  



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/HSQm4U7N2pZj6AQb6



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. 

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





Overview: NASA Environmental Justice Data Search Interface (EJDSI) 

Time to explore






4:35 - 5:20 PM





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

Overview of JupyterHub

Time to explore






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.



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

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







Earthdata:



Newsletter:



Get NASA Earth science data news in your inbox: Sign up for the ESDS Monthly Newsletter



Social Media: 



NASA Earthdata X: @NASAEarthdata 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/NASAEarthdata



Webinar Series: 



Sign up for announcements to upcoming webinars:   Send an email to: earthdatawebinars-join@lists.nasa.gov  leave the subject and body of the email blank.



Earthdata Login:



User Registration System (aka Earthdata Login)



Earthdata Log-in



Earthdata Login Tips







Earthdata Forum:



Earthdata Forum 



The Earthdata Forum provides a central online location where data users can interact with subject matter experts from DAACs to discuss data applications and research needs, and get answers to specific questions about accessing, viewing, and manipulating NASA Earth observation data.



Tutorials



NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: Menu Features

NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: How to Post a New Question

NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: Faceted Search

NASA Earthdata Forum Quick Video Guide: Favorite Tags

Webinar: NASA's Earthdata Forum Connect to a Growing Body 







Here you can submit a ticket that will be filtered and triaged to the appropriate discipline-specific data center or subject matter expert(s). Email: support@earthdata.nasa.gov 




Connect with Us:



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

Helen B. Parache, LinkedIn

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