Zarr — Cloud Native Geospatial Data Format
New Adoptions in the Geospatial Data formats.
In the Geospatial World, new data formats are emerging and gaining popularity. Zarr is one of these relatively newly adopted data formats specifically for N-Dimensional arrays. It is an effective way to store large N-dimensional data in the cloud and access chunks.
This article will cover What Zarr data is and how Zarr works. I will also touch on its specifications and why Zarr is important. Finally, I will share free Zarr datasets and resources you can explore.
What is Zarr?
Zarr is a format for storing chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays.
Zarr is a generic data format for Scientific Array Data. It can be Geospatial data like Oceanography data but also Microscopy data. There is a GeoZarr Specification to provide a geospatial extension to the Zarr data format. With GeoZarr, we can store multidimensional georeferenced earth observation data.
Zarr is an open-source specification format for storing chunked data by dividing the arrays into chunks…
