About & Core Concepts¶
Overview¶
The Open Data Cube is a collection of software designed to:
Index large amounts of Earth observation data, which can be stored on a file system or a cloud platform
Provide a Python based API for high performance querying and data access
Give scientists and other users easy ability to perform exploratory data analysis
Allow continental-scale processing of the stored data
Track the provenance of all the contained data to allow for quality control and updates
The Open Data Cube software is based around the datacube-core library. In addition to this core library, there are a range of tools that can be installed on top to enable further capabilities, such as open web services or metadata exploration.
All software in the Open Data Cube project family is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Use Cases¶
The Open Data Cube has a range of uses, including the following:
Collection Management: The ODC can be used as an index to assist in managing a collection of Earth observation data, including lineage (parent/child relationships).
Exploratory Data Analysis: Interactive analysis of data, such as through a Jupyter Notebook.
Publishing Web Services: Using the ODC to serve WMS, WCS, WPS or custom tools (such as polygon drill time series analysis).
Large-scale workflows on Cloud: Continental or global-scale processing of data on the cloud using XArray and Dask on Kubernetes, for example.
Large-scale workflows on HPC: Continental or global-scale processing of data on a High Performance Computing supercomputer cluster.
Standalone Applications: Running environmental analysis applications on a laptop, suitable for field work, or outreach to a developing region.
- What’s New
- v1.8.next
- v1.8.6 (30 September 2021)
- v1.8.5 (18 August 2021)
- v1.8.4 (6 August 2021)
- v1.8.3 (18 August 2020)
- v1.8.2 (10 July 2020)
- v1.8.1 (2 July 2020)
- v1.8.0 (21 May 2020)
- v1.7.0 (16 May 2019)
- v1.7.0rc1 (18 April 2019)
- v1.6.1 (27 August 2018)
- v1.6.0 (23 August 2018)
- v1.6rc2 (29 June 2018)
- v1.6rc1 Easter Bilby (10 April 2018)
- v1.5.4 Dingley Dahu (13th December 2017)
- v1.5.3 Purpler Unicorn with Starlight (16 October 2017)
- v1.5.2 Purpler Unicorn with Stars (28 August 2017)
- v1.5.4 Dingley Dahu (13th December 2017)
- v1.5.3 Purpler Unicorn with Starlight (16 October 2017)
- v1.5.2 Purpler Unicorn with Stars (28 August 2017)
- v1.5.1 Purpler Unicorn (13 July 2017)
- v1.5.0 Purple Unicorn (9 July 2017)
- v1.4.1 (25 May 2017)
- v1.4.0 (17 May 2017)
- v1.3.1 (20 April 2017)
- v1.3.0
- v1.2.2
- v1.2.0 Boring as Batman (15 February 2017)
- v1.1.18 Mushroom Milkshake (9 February 2017)
- v1.1.17 Happy Festivus Continues (12 January 2017)
- v1.1.16 Happy Festivus (6 January 2017)
- v1.1.15 Minion Party Hangover (1 December 2016)
- v1.1.14 Minion Party (30 November 2016)
- v1.1.13 Black Goat (15 November 2016)
- v1.1.12 Unnamed Unknown (1 November 2016)
- v1.1.11 Unnamed Unknown (19 October 2016)
- v1.1.10 Rabid Rabbit (5 October 2016)
- v1.1.9 Pest Hippo (20 September 2016)
- v1.1.8 Last Mammoth (5 September 2016)
- v1.1.7 Bit Shift (22 August 2016)
- v1.1.6 Lightning Roll (8 August 2016)
- v1.1.5 Untranslatable Sign (26 July 2016)
- v1.1.4 Imperfect Inspiration (12 July 2016)
- v1.1.3 Speeding Snowball (5 July 2016)
- v1.1.2 Wind Chill (28 June 2016)
- v1.1.1 Good Idea (23 June 2016)
- v1.1.0 No Spoon (3 June 2016)
- 1.0.4 Square Clouds (3 June 2016)
- 1.0.3 (14 April 2016)
- 1.0.2 (23 March 2016)
- 1.0.1 (18 March 2016)
- 1.0.0 (11 March 2016)
- pre-v1 (end 2015)
- Release Process
- ODC License
- Glossary