Browsing a STAC Catalog

SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC) are a standard for metadata catalogs. They originate from observational data but are becoming also widely used for reanalysis, forecast and climate prediction data. The main feature are the description of the spatial and temporal extent of the dataset. Additional fields allow adding of arbitrary metadata.

A STAC catalog is defined as JSON responses in a specific format. Those can either be served as JSON files or created by an API. The API specification for STAC also includes features for browsing the catalog and searching for datasets. Independent of the storage of the catalog, the STAC browser service offers an nice visualization of a catalog.

Guides:

• Browsing with a STAC Browser
  • The Landing Page
  • Browsing a Collection
  • Finding the Collection ID
  • Browsing an Item
• STAC Browser: Search
• Browsing a STAC Catalog with the pystac_client
  • Opening a known Dataset
  • A deeper look into a STAC catalog
  • Browsing through a Catalog
• Searching a Catalog with pystac_client