esdc-plugin

Cate plugin adding a data store for Earth System Data Cube (ESDC) instances

Installation

Create a Cate environment by using the Cate installer call Cate CLI to open a shell with activated Python environment. Alternatively, create the environment from cate sources:

git clone https://github.com/CCI-Tools/cate-core.git
cd cate-core
conda env create
activate cate
python setup.py develop

Install cablab:

cd ..
git clone https://github.com/CAB-LAB/cablab-core.git
cd cablab-core
python setup.py develop

Install esdc-plugin

cd ..
git clone https://github.com/CCI-Tools/esdc-plugin.git
cd esdc-plugin
python setup.py develop

Test installation of plugin

cate -h
python -c "import cate"

Configuration

In $HOME/.cate/conf.py define a list named esdc_data_sources. Its entries are tuples of the form (<id>, <title>, <path>), where

• id - arbitrary identifier, must be a non-empty string
• title - arbitrary title
• path - local path to your ESDC

For example:

esdc_data_sources = [
    ('esdc.lr_cube', 'ESDC 0.5 degrees, v1.0', '/home/hans/data/esdc/cube-lr-1.0'),
    ('esdc.hr_cube', 'ESDC 0.025 degrees, v1.1', '/home/hans/data/esdc/cube-hr-1.1'),
]