OpenScienceLab is an ecosystem of open-source tools for data analysis provided by NASA’s Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center (ASF DAAC). At the heart of OpenScienceLab is OpenSARLab, which opens a door to the world of SAR processing in the cloud via a JupyterLab environment. It is easy to launch in any web browser for algorithm development and interactive data exploration.

OpenSARLab provides:

• Access to a cloud-hosted JupyterHub
• Fast data transfer to users’ storage from ASF AWS archives
• Identical, fully configured, persistent computing software and hardware environments
• An open library of data recipes
• Utilizes JupyterHub in Amazon AWS and a JupyterLab development environment, with authenticated accounts and persistent storage
• Ideal for scientific collaboration requiring
  • Large datasets
  • Complicated development environments
  • Repeatable workflows
  • Ideal in a class setting, where student computing resources may be limited

Learn more about accessing and using OpenSARLab in the User Guide and access Jupyter notebooks at GitHub.

• Custom OSL deployments for research teams and classes
  • Deployments are tailored to your use-case and offer the exact computational resources required to prevent unnecessary AWS costs

Contact us for more information about custom deployments.

The OpenSARLab Workflow

1. Order On-Demand Level 2 Products From HyP3 on Vertex

2. Download HyP3 Products Into OpenSARLab

3. Analyze Data and Develop New Algorithms In Jupyter Notebooks

4. Share Reproducible Results Easily With Colleagues