sat-stac

This is a Python 3 library for reading and working with existing Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalogs (STAC). It can be used to

• Open and traverse STAC catalogs
• Download assets from STAC Items, using templated path names
• Save and load Self-contained STAC catalogs

The features for creating and updating existing catalogs in past versions have been removed in 0.4.0. If writing catalogs is needed, see PySTAC.

Installation

sat-stac has minimal dependencies (requests and python-dateutil). To install sat-stac from PyPi: sat-stac can be installed from pip or the source repository.

$ pip install sat-stac

From source repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/sat-utils/sat-stac.git
$ cd sat-stac
$ pip install .

Versions

To install a specific versions of sat-stac, install the matching version of sat-stac.

pip install sat-stac==0.1.0

The table below shows the corresponding versions between sat-stac and STAC:

sat-stac	STAC
0.1.x	0.6.x - 0.7.x
0.2.x	0.6.x - 0.7.x
0.3.x	0.6.x - 0.9.x
0.4.x	0.6.x - 1.0.0-beta.1

Tutorials

There are two tutorials. Tutorial-1 includes an overview of how to create and manipulate STAC static catalogs. Tutorial-2 is on the Python classes that reflect STAC entities: Catalogs, Collections, and Items.

About

sat-stac is part of a collection of tools called sat-utils.