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Welcome to the February 2023 OpenScienceLab Update!

Changes:

OpenScienceLab

  • OpenSARLab is now a part of OpenScienceLab with significant changes. Users can access different courses from a single page.

opensciencelab front page

Single Sign On

  • New single sign-on (SSO) to simplify the logging-in process. SSO eliminates the burden of the sign-on process by listing all accounts on a single web page with additional layers of security.

sso page

Automatic Authentication

  • Users who sign up to the OpenScienceLab no longer need admins to activate their accounts.

User Access

  • Admins can easily give users access to different profiles from a single page. Admins can toggle access lists based on various deployments.

IP Filter

  • OpenScienceLab will prevent users in one of NASA’s designated countries list from creating an account so that we are compliant with NASA’s security protocol.

User Request

  • Users can send a request to the OpenScienceLab team from the portal.

user request

Multi Download

  • Users can download multiple files at once through OpenScienceLab.
  • NB: Downloading multiple directories requires users to compress the directories beforehand.

multi download

Kernel Usage

  • The latest update of JupyterLab has a built-in kernel monitor that tracks detailed resource usage, such as:
  • Kernel Host
  • Memory consumption and availability
  • CPU usage

kernel usage

The following bullet points cover code changes you may need to make to your notebooks for them to work in JupyterLab:

  • MintPy Update:

    Due to the recent MintPy update, import syntax for version 1.4.1+ differs from previous versions. As a result, some notebooks may be incompatible with the latest version of MintPy. Below are examples of how to import MintPy depending on which versions you have:

    ``` python

    version 1.4.0 and below:

    import mintpy.view as view import mintpy.tsview as tsview . . .

    version 1.4.1+

    from mintpy.cli import view, tsview, ...
    ```

For additional backward compatibility changes, please refer to the previous release notes.