Team
Virtual Zarr is enabled through collaboration across industry, government, academia, non-profits, and individual open source developers.
Community
Virtual Zarr is made possible by ASDC, ASF, CarbonPlan, Development Seed, Earthmover, GES DISC, LP DAAC, NASA Earthdata, NSIDC, OB.DAAC, Openscapes, ORNL DAAC, PO.DAAC, and the Data Systems Evolution team at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
VirtualiZarr Maintainers
Earthaccess Virtual Zarr Integration
These individuals have contributed substantially to virtual dataset integration into earthaccess.
Community Contributors
Many more people have contributed to these projects through code, documentation, and community support. Below we show all the contributors through git commits. We greatly appreciate those who contribute through other means as well.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Virtual Zarr builds on decades of foundational work in scientific data formats. We are grateful to the pioneers who made this possible.
The HDF4 Mapping Project team laid essential groundwork: Ruth Aydt (Project Manager); Mike Folk, Hyo-Kyung Lee, Binh-Minh Ribler, and MuQun Yang from The HDF Group; Christopher Lynnes from GES-DISC; and Ruth E. Duerr and Luis Lopez from NSIDC.
Aleksandar Jelenak wrote the first version of what would become Kerchunk reference files. Rich Signell connected Aleksandar with Martin Durant, who then created Kerchunk. James Gallagher created DMR++. Their collective work established the foundations that Virtual Zarr continues to build upon.