Forecasting/modelling notebook

[cbur24]

Proposed changes

Proposing to add a vegetation forecasting/modelling notebook to the Real_world_examples folder, ported over from DE Africa repo.

In draft form until this issue is resolved

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[robbibt]

Hey @cbur24! Just checking on on this one - was this previously blocked by issues with the NCI environment?

[cbur24]

@robbibt This PR was in draft form as the Sandbox image needed to be updated due to a conflict between scipy and statsmodel.
I've rerun the notebook and can confirm it works now. I'll label it as ready-for-review and leave it up to the DEA team to decide if its something they want in the repo.

[uchchwhash]

Looks good to me!

[robbibt]

Hey @cbur24, sorry this has taken so long for us to progress! It's a really great notebook, and will be awesome to finally get it merged in.

Since the notebook was written, there's been a bunch of changes including Sentinel-2 products being renamed. I've checked out the branch and updated them to the new Collection 3.

The notebook was also pretty slow on the default Sandbox server, so I've updated the notebook to use only Sentinel-2A data, and a min_gooddata of 0.9. This means a lot less timesteps to load, but may potentially have changed the results - could you check the new outputs and make sure everything is as expected?

My only requested change is around the intro of the notebook: the "Background" section dives straight into pretty technical detail right up. I think adding in a sentence or two at the very beginning outlining the scientific/management case for forecasting using remote sensing data would make the notebook much more approachable to beginner users: essentially, outlining the case for why it's an important tool/case study. 🙂

Apart from that, looks great to me!

[cbur24]

@uchchwhash @robbibt
Thanks guys. I had a look at this notebook again last week during some down time which is why I pushed the re-merge with develop. I'll implement the changes requested next time I've got an hour or two free.

[robbibt]

Hey @cbur24, would love to merge this - I'm happy to write up a sentence or two for the intro if you're busy - I just wanted to add a tiny bit extra to emphasise the importance/usefulness of the use case. 🙂