About ODFP
ODFP is a single search and access layer that crawls NOAA/NCEI and partner catalogs, normalizes metadata to a canonical schema, and exposes everything through fast APIs and a clean web app with map/time/variable filters.
MVP
- Harvesting + normalization
- Search + dataset pages
- Exports (DCAT/ISO)
V2
- On-demand transforms (subset/regrid/Zarr/Parquet)
- Semantic search
- SDKs/CLI, Jupyter/QGIS plugins
Architecture
- Connectors: NCEI, ERDDAP/THREDDS, PANGAEA
- Postgres/PostGIS + OpenSearch
- FastAPI backend, Next.js frontend
- AWS: ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Cognito
- OpenTelemetry → Dynatrace