ecocloud uses a number of tools that Eco-Scientists may already be familiar with, or may find their applications useful. 

Coding languages

When a server is launched, you have the option of either using R or Python coding languages, depending on whichever you might be more familiar with. Both of these languages have an extensive support network and are often used for statistical computing and programming.

Virtual Desktop

The virtual desktop service provides you with a computer in the cloud. This service is provided by TERN. 

Microservices

Get daily weather values

Name

anuclim_daily_extract

Description

Extracts selected environmental variables at a specific location and time (from a given CSV file) from ANUClimate daily climate grids.

Inputs

• variables: A set containing any combination of the following environmental variables for extraction:
  • rainfall
  • temp_max
  • temp_min
  • vapour_pressure_mean
  • solar_radiation_mean
• csv: CSV occurrences with date

Outputs

• output: Requested weather data in CSV format

Try it

You can try this WPS process with ecocloud Compute:

1. Launch and open a SciPy notebook server from the ecocloud Dashboard
2. View the "ausecocloud/training" GitHub repository in the left sidebar (click the tab)
3. Open "examples" directory
4. Open the "WPS_anuclim_daily_extract.ipynb" notebook

Clip data to a geographic region

Name

• spatial_subset_geotiff
• spatial_subset_netcdf

Description

This WPS process extracts a spatial subset (using a given shapefile) from a NetCDF or GeoTIFF data file.

Inputs

• datafile: The data file (NetCDF or GeoTIFF)
• shapefile: ZIP file containing the ESRI Shapefile representing the geometry to subset
• variable: The variable to extract and subset over (applies to spatial_subset_netcdf only)

Outputs

• output: The subsetted file in the same format as the input data file (NetCDF or GeoTIFF)

Try it

You can try this WPS process with ecocloud Compute:

1. Launch and open a SciPy notebook server from the ecocloud Dashboard
2. View the "ausecocloud/training" GitHub repository in the left sidebar (click thetab)
3. Open "examples" directory
4. Open either the "WPS_spatial_subset_netcdf.ipynb" or "WPS_spatial_subset_geotiff.ipynb" notebook

Point-and-click Tools

This is a catalogue of popular tools used in ecosciences. These are external tools to the ecocloud Platform and the links will take you to the respective websites for each tool.

Think there’s a tool missing? Let us know here.