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The User Guides relevant to the Explorer can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The User Guides relevant to the Explorer can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The User Guides relevant to the Explorer can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Specific for BIOMASS Collaborative Environment” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_toggle title=”What is the BIOMASS ESA\/NASA MAAP?” css=””]<\/p>\n

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The Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform<\/strong>\u00a0(MAAP) is an ESA-NASA collaborative project focused on improving the understanding of aboveground terrestrial carbon dynamics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The MAAP will provide\u00a0computing capabilities<\/strong>\u00a0co-located with data as well as a set of tools and algorithms developed to support this specific field of research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s a\u00a0collaboration framework<\/strong>\u00a0to share data, science algorithms and compute resources in order to foster and accelerate scientific research conducted by NASA and ESA scientists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This guide aims to help users get started with using the platform for searching, visualizing, accessing, processing, querying, and sharing biomass relevant data to the MAAP<\/strong>. These data, collected from satellites, aircraft, and ground stations, are organized into collections and granules. Collections are a grouping of files that share the same product specification. Granules are the individual files which are independently described, inventoried, and retrieved within a collection. Granules inherit additional attributes from their containing collection. Explanations of the various functions available in MAAP to use in the ADE will also be explored.<\/div>\n

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  • Enable researchers to easily discover, process, visualize, and analyze large volumes of data from both agencies<\/li>\n
  • Provide tools and infrastructures to bring data into the same coordinate reference frame to enable comparison, analyze, data evaluation, and data generation<\/li>\n
  • Provide a version-controlled science algorithm development environment that support tools, co-located data, and processing resources<\/li>\n
  • Address intellectual property and sharing issues related to collaborative algorithm development and sharing of data and algorithms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

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    The available JupyterLab environments for users belonging to BIOMASS Collaborative Environment are:
    \n\u2022 Minimal
    \n\u2022 Datascience
    \n\u2022 MAAP
    \n\u2022 Rtools add-on<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    The “Minimal” environment is designed to work only with Python. It is recommended for those who do not need other languages, providing a faster configuration and avoiding possible package conflicts.
    \nThe “Datascience” environment provides Python, R and Julia, covering a vast range of code operativity.
    \nThe \u201cMAAP environment\u201d and \u201cRtools add-on environment\u201d are designed to handle and process BIOMASS data, with apposite libraries already installed.
    \nThe \u201cRtools add-on\u201d environment has both Python and R kernels installed, while only Python is available within the \u201cMAAP environment\u201d. Once an environment is selected; the workspace will be prepared. Depending on the chosen environment, it can take few seconds to a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Registered users can download available products; be notified, through a dedicated interface, for products that are not yet available;
    \naccess the specific Collaborative Environment workspace through the PAL.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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