VirES for Aeolus - Virtual Research Environment (VRE)

The VirES for Aeolus service (https://aeolus.services) has been successfully running by EOX since August 2018. The service provides easy access and analysis functions for the entire data archive of ESA's Aeolus Earth Explorer mission through a web browser.

This free and open service is being extended with a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). The VRE builds on the available data access capabilities of the service and provides a data access Application Programming Interface (API) as part of a developing environment in the cloud using JupyterHub and JupyterLab for processing and exploitation of the Aeolus data. In collaboration with Aeolus DISC user requirements are being collected, implemented and validated.

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. The VRE is intended to support and simplify the work of (citizen-) scientists interested in Aeolus data by being able to quickly develop processes or algorithms that can be shared or used to create visualizations for publications. Having a unified constant platform could potentially also be very helpful for calibration and validation activities by allowing easier result comparisons.