search and request landsat scene downloads via the usgs m2m api

domain: m2m.cr.usgs.gov · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Register for an EROS/ERS account and generate an M2M application token (the classic password-based login endpoint is deprecated in favor of login-token).
  2. POST to the login-token endpoint with your username and application token to obtain a session API key, then include it on subsequent calls.
  3. POST to dataset-search or dataset-filters to identify the correct datasetName (e.g. a Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 dataset).
  4. POST to scene-search with the datasetName plus a sceneFilter (spatial bounding box/geometry, acquisition date range, cloud cover, etc.) to get matching scene entityIds.
  5. Call download-options and download-request for the returned entityIds/datasetName to get downloadable URLs, then poll download-search/download-retrieve until the URLs are ready.

Known gotchas

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