Prerequisites

Prerequisites

To follow along hands-on during the Workshop, please do the following (20 minutes). All software or accounts are free.

  1. Earthdata Login account
    • Create an Earthdata Login account (if you don’t already have one) at https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov
    • Remember your username and password; you will need to download or access cloud data during the workshop and beyond.
  2. Netrc file
    • This file is needed to access NASA Earthdata assets from a scripting environment like Python.
    • There are multiple methods to create a .netrc file. For this workshop, earthaccess package is used to automatically create a netrc file using your Earthdata login credentials if one does not exist.
  3. Laptop or tablet
    • Participation in the exercises requires a laptop or tablet. Yes, a tablet works too! All participants will have access to a 2i2c Jupyter Lab instance running in AWS us-west 2 at https://workshop.openscapes.2i2c.cloud/hub/. During the workshop, log in using your email address as a username and the password we will share during the workshop.