Description
The ECS copy of MEaSUREs data sets are set to retire on June 26, 2025. The current MEaSUREs notebook includes instructions for downloading the ECS copy of two data sets. Suggested edits to the notebook:
Prerequisites cell - we might want to remove the link to the Programmatic Access Guide. The link is included to provide instructions for creating a .netrc file. I'll try to find a different reference.
Search data markdown instructions - refers to the migration to Earthdata cloud and instructs users to use cloudHosted=False in their search. we'll remove reference to cloud migration and this instruction.
Search data cell - the search data cell currently includes cloudHosted=False as arguments in the earthaccess.search_data steps. We'll remove this argument/parameter all together. once access to the ECS copy has been removed, this query parameter won't be necessary, as the cloud copy will be the only copy available. I tested the notebook using cloudHosted=True to make sure the notebook would work using the cloud copy of the data, and it worked the same.
I'm waiting to publish the changes until June 26, 2025, because removing cloudHosted=True while the both cloud and ECS copies of data are available will result in "double" hits for the search_data query and we don't want to download both copies of everything.