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sciencebasepy

Keywords: data access

Domain: Domain Agnostic

Language: Python

Environment: Windows; Linux; MacOS

Description:

ScienceBase is a USGS Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) that provides USGS scientists an online place to store and publish finalized science products. It provides end-users the ability to discover and consume these products via download and web services.
sciencebasepy is a Python package for making calls to the ScienceBase API.
Any of the thousands of datasets on ScienceBase are available through sciencebasepy.

Citation:

Long, J.L., Viger, R.J., Raja, K., Enns, K.D., Sheflin, J.R., Ignizio, D.A.,2023, sciencebasepy: A Python library for programmatic interaction with the USGS ScienceBase platform (Version): U.S. Geological Survey software release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9X4BIPR .

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