At the #AustralianPlantPhenomicsNetwork (#APPN), we're just concluding a project (Multiscalar Crop Characterisation Network) we've run with support from the #AustralianResearchDataCommons (#ARDC) to develop or adopt #Python tools and pipelines for simpler construction of geospatial data cubes from disparate sources (GeoTIFF, shapefiles, CSV data with point measurements, etc.). "Simpler" may only be relative, and others understand how to do this better, but I'm pleased with the results.

We're using STAC catalogues to drive an ODC-based engine for constructing xarray datacubes. The main tweaks have been in handling non-raster formats more smoothly.

As APPN goes forward, we expect to generate STAC metadata for pretty much any data objects that derive from observations with coordinates (UAV images, orthomosaics, point clouds, plot observations and measurements, etc.) and want to make it as easy as possible to plug and play with arbitrary sets of these and with relevant environment and climate data from other sources.

Three repositories:

stac-generator - configuration-driven generation of STAC catalogue records - https://github.com/aus-plant-phenomics-network/stac-generator

mccn-engine - loading and saving data cubes - https://github.com/aus-plant-phenomics-network/mccn-engine

mccn-case-studies - six #Jupyter notebooks that do semi-meaningful things with different data samples - https://github.com/aus-plant-phenomics-network/mccn-case-studies

All case studies also generate #RO-Crate packages, because we are heavily into adopting it (and #JSON-LD, schema.org, etc.) everywhere to contextualise our data to make it as #FAIR as possible.

After a fair bit of tinkering in between things I’ve finally gotten my BGP bits sorted properly and sending announcements up to my peer, some further filters adjusted in the peers link to the carriers and I’m now routable to the world!

#bgp #mikrotik #juniper #AS214064 #44net #ardc #ampr #routing #IPv4 #IPv6 #eBGP #iBGP #OSPF #dualstack

Interesting update for #research in #australia with #AARNET joining #ARDC #Nectar

https://ardc.edu.au/article/national-node-of-ardc-nectar-research-cloud-goes-live-at-aarnet/

In 2021, the german #DARC received 179,690€ from the #ARDC to correct and update the #Linux #AX25 #packetradio #kernel stack.

https://www.ardc.net/apply/grants/2021-grants/grant-fixing-the-linux-kernel-ax-25/

Since that day, NOTHING is available anywhere. The dedicated web site (linux-ax25.org) is non-existant and all about this project (and the money) vanished.

https://mailman.ardc.net/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/44net@mailman.ampr.org/message/GV2LZSBRMRSFZ2DEQQYIHYIUQ4BMQZWO/

Has anyone any information about the status of this project? Where is the code? Where the money went?

#amateurradio #hamradio

The Cousinship continues :
#Canada #Australia

https://alliancecan.ca/en/latest/news/canada-and-australia-team-strengthen-technological-and-scientific-ties-indo-pacific-region

#research #Alliance #ARDC

#HamRadioWorkbench's most recent episode is all about #44net and #ARDC. https://www.hamradioworkbench.com/podcast

44net is devoted solely to amateur radio use. Radio amateurs use 44net networks to set up radio-based networks using packet radio, 802.11 (Wi-Fi), and other technologies on amateur radio frequencies to exchange data using IP protocols. Local and regional radio networks are interconnected over the internet using a mesh network of tunnels between gateway systems.

#HamRadio #podcast #amatuerradio

Over the past months we have interviewed some of the people involved in the #ARDC, a series of #VMs hosted at the servus datacenter; we have also traced the history of #AMRO, Art Meets Radical Openness, and the general radical media art context in which #servus.at was born and still operates.

All this material is now collected in a fancy magazine called "Artists Running Data Centers", which we'll get fresh off the press tomorrow and present at STWST on Tuesday, December 17th at 7pm.