BIOMASS onboarding video

Accessing the ESA MAAP

The following video shows:

  • User registration: setting up your account and join the Collaborative Environment.

Product Algorithm Laboratory

The following video shows:

  • Access the PAL: Use the search functionality in Perception to locate specific products, with options to refine your results or conduct further analysis using Intellect’s wide range of processors.

  • Working in the Experiment (coding environment): Utilize the interactive Jupyter interface, fully integrated with GitHub to support version control and collaborative development of code and notebooks


  • Managing Environments: Create and activate a new environment to maintain project isolation and avoid dependency conflicts. For reproducibility, you can initialize an environment from a .yml file, ensuring consistent package versions across users. Then, configure the environment as the kernel in your development tool to apply the specified dependencies.


  • Downloading Products via API: Begin by obtaining a valid access token, which grants access to protected resources. With this token, use the provided code example to search the STAC catalog based on custom criteria and download the selected products.