Over the past few years, Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) that subdivide the earth into (roughly) equally sized faces have seen a rise in popularity. However, their in-memory representation is different from traditional projection-based data, which is either comprised of evenly shaped rectangular grid (aka raster) or discrete geometries (aka vector), and thus requires specialized tooling. In particular, this includes libraries that can work on the numeric cell ids defined by the specific DGGS.

xdggs is a library that provides a unified interface for xarray that allows working with and visualizing a variety of DGGS-indexed data sets.