2020 ESIP Winter Meeting

SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs is an emerging specification of a common metadata model for geospatial data, and a way to make data catalogs indexable and searchable. We have already seen STAC being adopted for both public data and commercial data. Catalogs exist for several AWS Public Datasets, Landsat Collection 2 data will be published along with STAC metadata, and communities like Pangeo are using STAC to organize data repositories in a scalable way. Commercial companies like Planet and Digital Globe are starting to publish STAC metadata for some of their catalogs. Session talks may cover overviews of the STAC, software projects utilizing STAC, and use cases of STAC in organizations. How to Prepare for this Session: See https://stacspec.org/.

View Recording:https://youtu.be/BdZbJLQSNFE.

Takeaways

• Checkout STAC at https://stacspec.org/ and follow along (or join) the discussion at https://gitter.im/SpatioTemporal-Asset-Catalog/Lobby
• See live STAC cataloges at stac.cloud. Some additional tools worth checking out include the STAC validator https://github.com/sparkgeo/stac-validator and STAC web linter http://staclint.com/.