#scientificdata — Public Fediverse posts

Excited to share that I'm now a member of the CF Conventions Committee! 🎉

CF (Climate and Forecast) conventions standardise how scientific data and metadata are stored in NetCDF files, ensuring consistency and machine readability. Looking forward to contributing and collaborating with the community to shape its future! 🌍

#CFConventions #NetCDF #FAIRData #ScientificData #DataScience

A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 8 - Reading Scientific Data Formats
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https://medium.com/@robsimmon/a-gentle-introduction-to-gdal-part-8-reading-scientific-data-formats-1a1f70d5388c <-- shared technical article / tutorial
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“Among its many well-known capabilities, GDAL has a hidden superpower — the ability to read scientific data formats like Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), Network Common Data Form (NetCDF), and Gridded Binary (GRIB). Many essential climate and satellite datasets created by the likes of NASA, NOAA, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the European Space Agency (ESA) are stored and distributed in one of these formats. They contain records of everything from global temperatures to land cover to ocean salinity. Unfortunately, many people who’d be interested in using these data don’t even know they exist…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earth #global #gdal #opensource #opendata #tutorial #learning #onlinelearning #introduction #scientificdata #HDF #NetCDF #GRIB #NASA #NOAA #WMO #ESA

Long-term data collection + high resolution + alpine habitats + #OpenAccess = GREAT! 🥳

Our colleagues from #Eurac #AlpineEnvironment published a #DataPaper in #ScientificData with a bunch of climatic data along an elevational gradient.

The data come from an LT(S)ER area in #Vinschgau, #SouthTyrol, #italy

👉 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03580-x

#LTER #LTSER #LTSERMatsch #LTERItaly #LTEREurope #LongTermData #MeteoStations #OpenData

New #research paper led by Heather Chamberlain at WorldPop - High-resolution estimates of social distancing feasibility, mapped for #urban areas in sub-Saharan #Africa - in #ScientificData #Covid19 #NPIs #socialdistancing
Mapped index data: https://wopr.worldpop.org/?/SocialDistancing
Visualised on the #GRID3 data hub: https://data.grid3.org/search?categories=social%20distancing%20index.
The work is part of the #Grid3 project, funded by #gatesfoundation and #FCDOGovUK
Project summary: https://www.worldpop.org/current-projects/grid3-covid19-scale-up
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01799-0