JupyterCon 2023

Reminder - The date and time of this sessions are placeholder due to the limitation of the conference software.
All Poster will be presented during the Poster Session from 6:30 to 8:00 on Thus 11th,

https://cfp.jupytercon.com/2023/talk/AKPRE8/

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There is widespread recognition that the Earth's climate is being changed due to human activity. The world's inhabitants (including humans, animals, and other organisms) are already experiencing many negative impacts, such as displacement from sea-level rise, ecosystem degradation, and increases in extreme weather events. People need access to better information so they can understand the impacts that are already occurring, predict what changes will occur in the future, mitigate the changes we can prevent from occurring, and prepare to adapt to those changes that we cannot mitigate. We have a global grand challenge of making living on Earth sustainable.

Fortunately, in recent decades there has been a rapid increase in data ability about the state of the Earth. Earth observing satellites have been continuously providing data for over 50 years, constantly improving in frequency and resolution. Earth system models generate weather predictions of the coming weeks and climate projections of what may happen in the next few decades. And an increasing number of data providers are making this data openly accessible.

However, there are numerous barriers that prevent decision makers (whether individuals, businesses or governments) from utilizing these data.

1. The data volume/velocity is a major challenge for most potential users.
2. The data need to be processed into actionable information that is appropriate for those making decisions. This critical work of designing processing workflows is being done by scientific researchers and data analysts, who need to have both scientific understanding and access to technologies that help them develop implement those workflows.
   We need to lower the barriers so that more people can participate in addressing global sustainability challenges.

These barriers are being addressed through the use of data-proximate computing systems that are optimized for geospatial data analysis. These systems move compute close to data storage, and are improvement over the historical practice (and bottleneck) of downloading large datasets for local analysis. Some examples of these systems include:

• Pangeo a open source software stack consisting of Jupyter, Dask, Kubernetes.
• Earth Engine Google's cloud-based geospatial analysis system, including a >50 PB data catalog.

A remaining challenge is how to improve the navigate, exploration, and analysis of data residing in these systems so that hypotheses can be rapidly tested, workflows can be prototyped, and applications can be rapidly deployed to less technical decision makers.

This presentation will cover:

• Any overview of global sustainability challenges and how cloud-based geospatial tools that can be used to address them.
• How Jupyter technologies simplify working with petabyte scale datasets including:
  • Operator and function overloading and custom rich display methods to facilitate analysis of complex objects.
  • Jupyter Widgets and their bi-directional interactions, allow for interactive exploration through space and time. Important examples include ipyleafet, ipytree, bqplot.
• earthengine-jupyter - a Python package for working with Google Earth Engine from within a Jupyter notebook.
• Examples of analyzing 1000's of satellite images and decades of climate data.