Setting up the DE Africa Sandbox Environment
- Creators
- Digital Earth Africa
Description
To run the Jupyter Notebook in Digital Earth Africa's Sandbox, each user is required to set-up an account. This approach to setting up an account and familiarising with the environment is summarised as follows.
Creating a Digital Earth Africa Account
To follow along and customise the Jupyter Notebook, the user is required to create first a free Digital Earth Africa Sandbox account. The Sandbox environment facilitates writing and running code for analysing Earth observation data.
Navigating the Sandbox
All data analysis occurs within the Digital Earth Africa Sandbox, therefore a general understanding of navigation through the Sandbox is valuable.
Running a Jupyter Notebook in Sandbox
Digital Earth Africa is based on a Python library called the Open Data Cube, meaning that the Sandbox is made up of an array of Python-based notebooks. To run and manipulate these notebooks, it is helpful to have a generalised familiarity of working within this environment and running notebooks.
To start the setting up process mentioned above, Digital Earth Africa provides information on how to register for a Digital Earth Africa Sandbox account. Additionally, Digital Earth Africa provides information for using Jupyter Notebooks to load, plot and interact with DE Africa data.