CyVerse STAC

SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) is a json-based metadata standard to describe geospatial data. It's goal is to make geospatial data more easily worked with, indexed, and discovered.

Cyverse is developing STAC capabilities to share out remotely sensed imagery that is stored in the Cyverse Datastore

This documentation will cover:

1. Creating STAC compliant json/geojson files
2. Differences between static and dynamic STAC catalogs
3. Instructions for how Cyverse is deploying a STAC API
4. How to add new collections to the API
5. STAC browser
6. TiTiler

Important Resources

StacSpec is the official documentation for the STAC standard.

pystac is a python library for creating STAC compliant json/geojson files

pystac-client is a python library for accessing and querying STAC catalogs

The STACIndex is a community driven index of STAC catalogs, learning resources, and tools.

The Radiant Earth Stac Browser a tool that allows you to graphically browse through static and API STAC catalogs.

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Last update: 2024-03-21