Search and Discovery for Geospatial Data
Earth Search is a STAC compliant search and discovery API built using Element 84's suite of FilmDrop services bringing petabytes worth of Geospatial Open Datasets to users while allowing them to quickly and easily interact with their data of interest.
We provide three solutions designed to meet your organization's needs.
Earth Search Open is a free-to-use STAC API that gives you a central search catalog and standardized metadata for Earth on AWS data.
Earth Search Pro provides a stable and fully-supported STAC API with early access and low latency availability of new and ongoing datasets.
Earth Search Private takes you to the next level with your own custom datasets and a private API.
Free-to-use STAC API
Earth Search Open gives you a central search catalog and standardized STAC metadata via a single API.
Access cloud-native datasets
Access cloud native datasets including the entire USGS Landsat Collection 2 and ESA Sentinel-2 catalogs with more datasets being added regularly. Sentinel-1 and NAIP coming Q1 2023.
Need more features?
Explore our paid options below for more features and added support.
Powerful services to accomplish your goals
In addition to accessing cloud-native datasets from Earth Search Open, our Earth Search Pro and Earth Search Private solutions meet the highest quality standards for geospatial data ingestion and delivery.
Secure and private with user authentication
Because not everyone should have access to your data, both options provide a secure way for users to authenticate with our API's.
Early access to newly indexed datasets
Get a competitive edge with early access to several new open datasets before they're added to Earth Search Open.
Customer-exclusive private endpoint(s) and datasets
Need to manage your own endpoint or have your own dataset that you want to catalog and share? We can deploy your own private version and, through our expertise and industry experience, help you manage your own custom datasets.
Earth Search Private OnlyGet the data with the support you need
Our team is available to help you through the process. Whether you have a question about the service or want to know the status of your process, we are here to help.
The solution with the right benefits
Compare all the features of Earth Search in the table below.
| Feature | Open Data | Earth Search Pro | Earth Search Private |
|---|---|---|---|
| Access to cloud-native datasets |  | | |
| Access to cloud-native geospatial data experts | | | |
| Early access to newly indexed datasets * | | | |
| User authentication | | | |
| Uptime guarantee of 99.9% ** | | | |
| Dedicated 24/7 support team | | | |
| Customer-exclusive private endpoint(s) | | ||
| Indexing for customer-owned/private datasets | | ||
| Pricing | Free | Contact us! | Contact us! |