Tina Odaka
Tina Todaka is a research engineer at IFREMER, working in the UMR-LOPS (Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale). She leads the IAOCEA project, focusing on the hybridization of model, satellite, and in-situ data for oceanography using scattering transform techniques. She also leads the Pangeo-Fish project, a software package leveraging the Pangeo environment to help biologists efficiently compute fish tracks from biologging in-situ data and Earth science datasets.
Her research interests include optimizing scientific computing workflows in oceanography, from high-performance and cloud-based computing to their practical applications in policy decision-making. She actively contributes to open-source geospatial science, developing scalable and reproducible tools for large-scale oceanographic data analysis.
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Over the past few years, Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) that subdivide the earth into (roughly) equally sized faces have seen increased popularity. However, their in-memory representation is different from traditional projection-based data, which is either comprises of evenly shaped rectangular grid (aka raster) or discrete geometries (aka vector), and thus requires specialized tooling. In particular, this includes libraries that can work on the numeric cell ids defined by the specific DGGS.
xdggs is a library that provides a unified interface for xarray that allows working with and visualizing a variety of DGGS-indexed data sets.