Getting Started
To help you make the most of your Sandbox experience, we encourage you to explore our user guide.
When users log into the Sandbox, the Jupyter Notebooks from the Digital Earth Africa Sandbox Notebooks repository will be loaded into the environment. These notebooks can be changed and edited within a session, for example, to run analyses on different geographical areas of interest. However, Notebooks and other data will not be preserved in a user’s account between sessions. The environment will refresh and show the default Notebooks repository when the user next logs in.
This means that users must back-up and save their work outside the Sandbox between sessions. There are several ways to do this, including:
Using GitHub which allows version control and pushing/pulling of version updates within and between sessions. Refer to the Digital Earth Africa GitHub documentation. Using GitHub can be challenging at first, but offers seamless integration with the Sandbox once users are familiar with the operations and terminology. Extensive GitHub user documentation is also available, as is guidance via various web forums.
Download and upload Notebooks between sessions, backing up and storing elsewhere. Refer to JupyterLab documentation on uploading and downloading files. Ensure Notebooks are saved with the most recent changes before downloading. There can sometimes be short delays to file saving in cloud environments.
Connect the Sandbox to a Google Drive account. Refer to the Digital Earth Africa documentation for integration with Google Drive.
Importantly, as part of the Sandbox terms and conditions, responsibility to back up and manage files sits with the user.
Troubleshooting
Please submit any questions to helpdesk@digitalearthafrica.org
Categorisation of Digital Earth Africa Tools and Services
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Citing Digital Earth Africa Notebooks
If you use any of the notebooks, code or tools, please reference them using the following citation:
Burton, C., Neema, V., Boamah, E., Chong, E., Adams, C., Wellington, M., Sadiki, M., Moghaddam, N., Liu, L., Bishop-Taylor, R., Yuan, F., Leith, A., Jorand, C., Halabisky, M., Rebelo, L-M, DE Africa Notebooks contributors 2024. Digital Earth Africa notebooks and tools repository. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/148997
Additional information
License The code in this notebook is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Digital Earth Africa data is licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 license.
Contact If you need assistance, please post a question on the DE Africa Slack channel or on the GIS Stack Exchange using the open-data-cube tag (you can view previously asked questions here).
If you would like to report an issue with this notebook, you can file one on Github.