[User story proposal] Xarray for Remote Sensing

[jhamman]

This is a proposal for a remote sensing use case story for Xarray. The story will be published on Xarray's blog (https://xarray.dev/blog).

Why?

Xarray is now used quite broadly in the remote sensing space. There are toolkits that utilize Xarray for specific sensors (like IcePx for IceSAT2) and utilities for doing common remote sensing tasks like reprojection etc. (e.g. rioxarray). However, there seems to be a lot of untapped potential in this space so a few blog posts highlighting how Xarray is used for remote sensing could be beneficial to the research/applications community and the Xarray developers.

What?

We are targeting a short and non-technical post that illustrates how Xarray is (or could be) used in your genomics context. Below is a template outline that you should feel free to modify:

1. Who am I?
2. What problem am I trying to solve?
3. How does Xarray help?
4. Why did I choose Xarray?
5. Current pain points (or ways that Xarray could better serve your use case)
6. Technology I use around Xarray
7. Anything else to know?
8. Links and references

Feel free to insert images or short code blocks if they help you tell your story.

How?

Xarray's blog using Markdown with some front-matter. You can copy one of the existing posts to get started or you can write in a google-doc-like-thing and ask us to do the markdown formatting. If you copy a previous post, use a name like user-story-remote-sensing-icesat2 or whatever makes sense for your application.

xref: #272

[jhamman]

@JessicaS11 - would you be up for writing something here?

Others that may be interested or have ideas of folks that would be: @scottyhq, @snowman2, ...?

[snowman2]

Here are some additional relevant projects:

• https://github.com/opendatacube/datacube-core/
• https://github.com/opendatacube/odc-geo
• https://github.com/opendatacube/odc-stac
• https://github.com/gjoseph92/stackstac
• https://github.com/bopen/xarray-sentinel
• https://github.com/makepath/xarray-spatial

May be worth pinging the maintainers of these projects to see if they are interested as well.

[jhamman]

@e-marshall - would you be interested in writing a short post? (see above for details)

[jhamman]

See #384

[e-marshall]

^ I've started working on a xarray for RS blog post separately from the siparcs one, should I still do that?

[jhamman]

Oh! Yes please!

[e-marshall]

ok!

[jhamman]

Hi @e-marshall! Checking in on the status of your RS post. Is this something you're still interested in writing up?