VirES for Aeolus - Virtual Research Environment (VRE)

<p><span>The VirES for Aeolus service (https://aeolus.services) has been successfully running </span><span>by EOX </span><span>since August 2018. The service </span><span>provides</span><span> easy access </span><span>and</span><span> analysis functions for the entire data archive of ESA's Aeolus Earth Explorer mission </span><span>through a web browser</span><span>.</span></p><p><span>This </span>free and open service <span>is being extended with a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). </span><span>The VRE </span><span>builds on the available data access capabilities of the service and provides </span><span>a </span><span>data access Application Programming Interface (API) a</span><span>s part of a </span><span>developing environment </span><span>i</span><span>n the cloud </span><span>using </span><span>JupyterHub and </span><span>JupyterLab</span><span> for processing and exploitation of the Aeolus data. </span>In collaboration with Aeolus DISC user requirements are being collected, implemented and validated.</p><p>Jupyter Notebook templates, an extensive set of tutorials, and documentation are being made available to enable a quick start on how to use VRE in projects. <span>The VRE is intended to support and simplify </span><span>the </span><span>work of (citizen-) scientists </span><span>interested in</span><span> Aeolus data by being able to </span><span>quickly develop processes or algorithms that can be </span><span>shar</span><span>ed or used to create </span><span>visualizations</span><span> for publications. Having a unified constant platform could potentially also be very helpful for calibration and validation activities </span><span>by </span><span>allowing easier result comparisons. </span></p>