Streaming Environmental Data

Streaming comes before grammar in CubeDynamics.

Before you can compose operations, you need a consistent way to access environmental data without assuming one storage platform, one archive, or one deployment model.

What Streaming Means Here

In CubeDynamics, a stream is an environmental data source that can be accessed and transformed without requiring you to materialize the entire analysis space locally first.

That includes:

• local files
• cloud-hosted raster archives
• STAC-backed assets
• synthetic or derived cubes

Why Streaming Comes First

CubeDynamics is not built around:

• one data catalog
• one backend
• one storage engine

It is built around a stable computation interface that can sit above many sources.

That is why the docs lead with streaming before verbs.

In This Section

• What is streaming?
• Virtual Cubes
• Local sources
• Cloud sources
• STAC sources

Shared Interface

Scientists and AI agents use the same streaming interface:

cube = load_data(...)
result = pipe(cube) | some_verb()

The source can change. The grammar stays consistent.