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Last Post 03 Aug 2020 11:55 AM by  Ben Castellani
how to access AWS from IDL
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27 Jul 2020 08:41 AM
    I searched around, but was not able to find anything especially useful as far as examples or documentation on how to access AWS datasets from within IDL. In particular, I would like to get satellite data from GOES-16 and 17: https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-goes/

    Any hints or leads would be greatly appreciated!

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    Brian

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    03 Aug 2020 11:55 AM
    IDL does not include any specific functionality to access GOES data on AWS S3 buckets. You will need to follow the steps provided by NOAA to access AWS and download the data to your local machine for processing by IDL.

    From the GOES docs, it looks like the best method would be to install the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) utility to download the data: https://docs.opendata.aws/noaa-goes16/cics-readme.html

    A command line utility like that could be run via IDL using the SPAWN command if it makes sense for your usage: https://www.harrisgeospatial.com/docs/SPAWN.html
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