Auspatious
Auspatious Datasets on Source
Introducing Auspatious
Auspatious specialises in supporting geospatial technology projects, providing software development, data wrangling, and technical leadership.
Cloud Optimizing Datasets to Enable Collaboration
One project spearheaded by Auspatious was to convert an existing dataset into a cloud native format, the project was in collaboration with Australian Antarctic Division, and aimed to make the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) dataset easier to access.
This is a daily dataset, which is accessible from NASA as NetCDF files, which work fine for single-date access, but if you want to explore a year or decade or longer, then the data requires downloading. Auspatious converted the individual measurements from each day to cloud optimised geotiffs and created a GeoParquet STAC index file to them. This optimization makes it possible to access all the data and create a lazy-loaded Xarray using Python, which can then be subset and analysed in seconds using distributed computing tools like Dask.
Source Cooperative provided Auspatious a scalable data store that is discoverable, low-cost, and designed to support many types of user expertise.
"I value Source Cooperative as a scalable, practically unlimited in size, data store for open data. I could store the data in a commercial account that I manage, but I prefer using a well-known, discoverable space for storage. I like using Source when it's for a broader public good, one which provides public usefulness.
For example, I've downloaded a high resolution elevation model for Tasmania and converted it to a nice COG and it just made sense for me to store it and document access on Source because then everyone can get value out of its simpler access. I appreciate that Source truly supports the broader public good to catalyze collaboration, sharing, and building on existing data."
— Alex Leith, Auspatious Founder
Find Out More About Auspatious
Learn more about Auspatious: https://auspatious.com
About Source Cooperative
Source Cooperative is the data publishing utility for the web, allowing trusted organizations and individuals to publish data of any kind at any scale.