DIGITAL EARTH OBSERVATION INFRASTRUCTURES AND INITIATIVES: A REVIEW FRAMEWORK BASED ON OPEN PRINCIPLES

Recent years have seen a tremendous increase of digital Earth Observation (EO) infrastructures, which provide web-based environments for accessing and processing data in a highly automated and scalable way. However, the current landscape of EO infrastructures and initiatives is fragmented, with various levels of user on-boarding and uptake success. The current work aims to make sense of this complex landscape by providing two main contributions. First, it offers a classification scheme used to review and analyse more than 150 EO infrastructures and initiatives. Then, adopting a user-centric perspective, the main limitations and obstacles currently faced by users when working with the existing EO platforms are identified. For each of these limitations, we propose a number of good practices that could benefit, from a user point of view, the design and functioning of EO platforms. Some technological enablers, i.e. specific resources (such as software components, standards and data encodings) that emerged from the analysis as holding a great potential for improving the usability of existing EO platforms, are finally listed. The work aims to provide a first scientific insight on how to best design and operate EO platforms to maximise the benefits of their user communities

pysal/libpysal: v4.8.1rc1

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pysal/libpysal: v4.9.2

<p><!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at v4.9.2 --></p> <h2>What's Changed</h2> <h3>Maintenance</h3> <ul> <li>remove <code>xarray</code> as hard dependency by @jGaboardi in https://github.com/pysal/libpysal/pull/629</li> </ul> <p><strong>Full Changelog</strong>: https://github.com/pysal/libpysal/compare/v4.9.1...v4.9.2</p&gt

pysal/libpysal: v4.9.1

<p><!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at v4.9.1 --></p> <h2>What's Changed</h2> <h3>Other Changes</h3> <ul> <li>pass kwargs to explore by @martinfleis in https://github.com/pysal/libpysal/pull/627</li> </ul> <p><strong>Full Changelog</strong>: https://github.com/pysal/libpysal/compare/v4.9.0...v4.9.1</p&gt

The PySAL

PySAL is a library for geocomputation and spatial data science. Written in Python, the library has a long history of supporting novel scholarship and broadening methodological impacts far afield of academic work. Recently, many new techniques, methods of analyses, and development modes have been implemented, making the library much larger and more encompassing than that previously discussed in the literature. As such, we provide an introduction to the library as it stands now, as well as the scientific and conceptual underpinnings of its core set of components. Finally, we provide a prospective look at the library's future evolution