Background

Background#

This section discusses different topics that are relevant to the material demonstrated in the tutorials.

2.1 Context and motivation
Background on how the increasing availability of earth observation data and computational tools impacts how scientists conduct research.

2.2 Data cubes
An overview of data cubes for earth observation data and how they are used in scientific workflows.

2.3 Tutorials overview
A brief description of the topics covered within each tutorial.

2.4 Tutorial data
Background on the remote sensing datasets used in each tutorial.

2.5 Software
Instructions for how to set up a computing environment to run these tutorials on a local machine (a laptop) or hosted JupyterHub resources.

2.6 Relevant Concepts
A glossary-like page of for terms and concepts that will come up in the tutorials.