> Most recorded data from satellites is also NOT open source.
This is false. NASA and ESA science data is free.
There is often an embargo period for very novel sensors, and always a delay of hours-to-weeks to allow processing to catch up, but it's free.
If it's the source code of the analysis pipeline you mean -- even though you said data - that's a harder lift, because the processing is complex. But even that is changing (https://science.nasa.gov/open-science-overview).
Even in the absence of the open science initiative above, today you can always get the raw data ("Level 1 radiances") or sometimes even uncalibrated straight-off-the-sensor data ("Level 0"), if you want to process it. (https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/open-data-services-and... -- "All EOS instruments must have Level 1 Standard Data Products (SDPs)")
And if you want to look in to how the processing works, there are detailed documents ("ATBD's") that explain how the pipeline works, for each data product. Also free.
> Climate scientists are not really data experts, ....
Dreadfully wrong. Do you work in this area at all?
This is false. NASA and ESA science data is free.
There is often an embargo period for very novel sensors, and always a delay of hours-to-weeks to allow processing to catch up, but it's free.
If it's the source code of the analysis pipeline you mean -- even though you said data - that's a harder lift, because the processing is complex. But even that is changing (https://science.nasa.gov/open-science-overview).
Even in the absence of the open science initiative above, today you can always get the raw data ("Level 1 radiances") or sometimes even uncalibrated straight-off-the-sensor data ("Level 0"), if you want to process it. (https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/open-data-services-and... -- "All EOS instruments must have Level 1 Standard Data Products (SDPs)")
And if you want to look in to how the processing works, there are detailed documents ("ATBD's") that explain how the pipeline works, for each data product. Also free.
> Climate scientists are not really data experts, ....
Dreadfully wrong. Do you work in this area at all?