NASA GIBS: Satellite API

NASA GIBS: API for access to NASA Satellite Data

Types of Data Provided by NASA API

• Biomass Distribution Visualization
• Greenhouse Gas Visualization
• Space-View Visualization
• Natural Fire and Flood Visualization
• Precipitation Visualization
• Reference Maps
• Ice and Snow Cover Maps
• Elevation Visualizations
• Temperature Visualizations
• Water Distribution Visualizations

Accessing GIBS API via Python

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS)

• User-friendly API access
• Query parameters: bounding box (latitude and longitude), image size, layers (type of visualization/data), file format
• File formats: Raster (png, GeoTiff)
• Available visualizations: Geographical (EPSG:4326) and Web Mercator (EPSG:3857)

OWSLIB: an Open-Source Python Module for API Access

• Allows user to connect to online WMS API
• Allows user to submit get requests for data from API
• API response can be stored in a local variable directly
• API response does not require file parsing