Other resources

Throughout this book, we reference a number of resources on different topics. This page contains the external resources referenced in this book organized by subject:

Xarray-specific resources

• Xarray User Guide

• How do I…

• Xarray High-level computational patterns

• Parallel computing with dask

• Terminology

• Xarray, Dask - Chunking & Performance

• Regridding with Xarray Cookbook - Project Pythia

Dask resources

• Choosing good chunk sizes in Dask

• Dask Cookbook - Project Pythia

Geospatial data science, data formats, and metadata

• Introduction to Earth and Environmental Data Science

• Geocomputation with Python

• Datacubes - openEO

• Data Formats - NASA Earth Observation Data Basics

• Cloud Computing - NASA Earth Observation Data Basics

• Vector Data Cubes - Edzer Pebesma

• Climate Forecase Conventions

• GDAL Virtual Raster Format

• STAC Specification

Geospatial data and coordinate reference systems

• Coordinate Reference Systems - Geocomputaion with Python

• Reprojecting Geographic Data - Geocomputation with Python

• PyPROJ

• cfxarray

Remote sensing data types and formats

• Types of SAR Products - NASA Earth Observation Data Basics

• CEOS Analysis Ready Data

Remote sensing principles

• Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) - Alaska Satellite Facility

• SAR - NASA Earth Observation Data Basics

• The SAR Handbook - NASA SERVIR

• SAR Image Interpretation - NASA Earth Observation Data Basics

• Microwave Remote Sensing - University of Alaska Fairbanks

• A mathematical tutorial on SAR - Margaret Cheney, NASA EarthData

• ASF HyP3 Introduction to SAR

Data & Processing documentation

• ITS_LIVE Documentation

• ESA Sentinel-1 Documentation

• ASF Sentinel-1 RTC Product Guide

• Microsoft Planetary Computer - Sentinel-1 RTC data

• Randolph Glacier Inventory User Guide ASF HyP3 Tutorials

More data cube resources

• The Data Cube Manifesto