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