Data Analysis of Earth Observation Data from Copernicus Satellites

Abstract: Open Data Cubes are platforms that contain open source satellite data and provide analysis tools for governments or organizations. The Swedish version is known as Swedish Space Data Lab (SSDL) and this master thesis was a part of it, providing the first analysis tools of the SSDL. Within a smaller project in the SSDL a drought analysis was done for the region of Mälardalen. The thesis work consisted on developing data analysis methods using packages for machine learning and statistical analysis in Python and Jupyter Notebooks. The drought analysis consisted of a two-year comparison between 2018 and 2019 due to limitations on the data availability. It was found that first year was drier than the second. However, longer time series would be needed in order to observe trends related to possible changes in the climate.