Step 2. Find and preview data

1. Select a host

Data hosts are providers that offer access to data acquired by a producer. Hosts are either commercial or non-commercial.

To get a list of all available data hosts, call the Get data hosts endpoint. Select the data host you want to proceed with and retrieve its name.

2. Search the catalog

To get a list of available full scenes from the catalog, call the Search the catalog by host name endpoint with the host name as the path parameter.

An example response to search for scenes with the following parameters:

• From the Pléiades collection
• Covering the geometry specified in the bounding box
• Captured from January 1, 2019, to January 15, 2019
• With cloud coverage less than or equal to 90%

{
  "collections": ["PHR"],
  "bbox": [6.553674, 62.191632, 6.560222, 62.195116],
  "datetime": "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z/2019-01-15T23:59:59Z",
  "limit": 100,
  "query": {
    "cloudCoverage": {
      "LTE": 90
    }
  }
}

Retrieve the full scene ID from the features.properties.id field in the response.

3. Preview data

Some data hosts provide free, low-resolution images of data that you can view before creating an order:

• Quicklooks are previews of full scenes on a basemap.
• Thumbnails are small, light-weighted previews of full scenes. For some data hosts, thumbnails can be cropped and rotated compared to quicklooks.

Not all data hosts provide thumbnails or quicklooks.

To get a quicklook of a full scene from the catalog, call the Get a quicklook endpoint with the host name and image ID as path parameters. If a quicklook is available, the response will be an image file. Otherwise, the response will be null.

To get a thumbnail of a full scene from the catalog, call the Get a thumbnail endpoint with the host name and image ID as path parameters. If a thumbnail is available, the response will be an image file. Otherwise, the response will be null.