This is a Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC) browser for static catalogs. Minimal support for APIs is implemented, but it not the focus of the Browser and may lead to issues. It attempts to surface all included data in a user-centric way (an approach which can inform how data is represented in the evolving spec). It is implemented as a single page application (SPA) for ease of development and to limit the overall number of catalog reads necessary when browsing (as catalogs may be nested and do not necessarily contain references to their parents).
Version: 3.2.0 (supports all STAC versions between 0.6.0 and 1.1.0)
This package has also been published to npm as @radiantearth/stac-browser.
It's not officially supported, but you may also be able to use it for certain OGC API - Records and OGC API - Features compliant servers.
Please note that STAC Browser is currently without funding for both maintenance, bug fixes and improvements. This means issues and PRs may be addressed very slowly. If you care about STAC Browser and have some funds to support the future of STAC Browser, please contact matthias@mohr.ws
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A demo instance is running at https://radiantearth.github.io/stac-browser/.
The catalog section of STAC Index is also built on top of STAC Browser (currently v2).
First, you need to clone or download this repository.
Then switch into the newly created folder and install all dependencies:
npm installBy default, STAC Browser will let you browse all catalogs on STAC Index.
To browse only your own static STAC catalog or STAC API, set the catalogUrl CLI parameter when running the dev server.
In this example we point to EarthSearch (https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1/):
npm start -- --open --catalogUrl="https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1/"To open a local file on your system, see the chapter Using Local Files.
If you'd like to publish the STAC Browser instance use the following command:
npm run build -- --catalogUrl="https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1/"This will only work on the root path of your domain though. If you'd like to publish in a sub-folder,
you can use the pathPrefix option.
After building, dist/ will contain all assets necessary
host the browser. These can be manually copied to your web host of choice.
Important: If historyMode is set to history (which is the default value), you'll need to add
an additional configuration file for URL rewriting.
Please see the historyMode option for details.
You can customize STAC Browser, too. See the options and theming details below. If not stated otherwise, all options can either be specified via CLI, ENV variables or in the config file. You can also provide configuration options "at runtime" (after the build).
experimental
STAC Browser supports "private query parameters", e.g. for passing an API key through. Any query parameter that is starting with a ~ will be stored internally, removed from the URL and be appended to STAC requests. This is useful for token-based authentication via query parameters.
So for example if your API requires to pass a token via the API_KEY query parameter, you can request STAC Browser as such:
https://examples.com/stac-browser/?~API_KEY=123 which will change the URL to https://examples.com/stac-browser/ and store the token 123 internally. The request then will have the query parameter attached and the Browser will request e.g. https://examples.com/stac-api/?API_KEY=123.
Please note: If the server hosting STAC Browser should not get aware of private query parameters and you are having historyMode set to "history", you can also append the private query parameters to the hash so that it doesn't get transmitted to the server hosting STAC Browser.
In this case use for example https://examples.com/stac-browser/#?~API_KEY=123 instead of https://examples.com/stac-browser/?~API_KEY=123.
Please read the migration documentation for details.
STAC Browser supports customization through a long list of options that can be set in various ways.
Please read the documentation for the options.
STAC Browser can be translated into other languages and can localize number formats, date formats etc.
You need to change the locale and supportedLocales settings to select the default language and the languages available to users.
The following languages are currently supported:
We manage the translations in Crowdin, please see https://crowdin.com/project/stac-browser/ for details.
To add your own language, please follow the guide below: Adding a new language
You can define custom phrases in the custom.json.
This is especially useful for phrases that are coming from non-standadized metadata fields (see the chapter "Additional metadata fields").
If you've found metadata labels (e.g. "Price" and "Generation Time") that are not translated,
you can add it to the custom.json. For metadata fields you need to add it to a the object fields
as it is the group for the metadata-related phrases.
There you can add as many phrases as you like. For example:
{
"fields": {
"Price": "Preis",
"Generation Time": "Generierungszeit"
}
}You can customize STAC Browser in the src/theme folder. It contains Sass files (a CSS preprocessor), which you can change to suit your needs.
The easiest solution is to start with the variables.scss file and customize the options given there.
For simplicity we just provide some common options as default, but you can also add and customize any Bootstrap variable,
see https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/theming/ for details.
The file page.scss contains some Sass declarations for the main sections of STAC Browser and you can adopt those to suit your needs.
If you need even more flexibility, you need to dig into the Vue files and their dependencies though.
The file basemaps.config.js contains the configuration for the basemaps.
You can update either just the BASEMAPS object or you can write a custom function configureBasemap that returns the desired options for vue2-leaflet.
XYZ and WMS basemaps are supported and have different options that you can set.
STAC Browser has a pluggable interface to share or open assets and links with other services, which we call "actions".
More information about how to add or implement actions can be found in the documentation.
The metadata that STAC Browser renders is rendered primarily through the library stac-fields.
It contains a lot of rules for rendering many existing STAC extensions nicely.
Nevertheless, if you use custom extensions to the STAC specification you may want to register your own rendering rules for the new fields.
This can be accomplished by customizing the file fields.config.js.
It uses the Registry defined in stac-fields to add more extensions and fields to stac-fields and STAC Browser.
To add your own fields, please consult the documentation for the Registry.
If you have a custom extension with the title "Radiant Earth" that uses the prefix radiant: you can add the extension as such:
Registry.addExtension("radiant", "Radiant Earth");If this extension has a boolean field radiant:public_access that describes whether an entity can be accessed publicly or not, this could be described as follows:
Registry.addMetadataField("radiant:public_access", {
label: "Data Access",
formatter: (value) => (value ? "Public" : "Private"),
});This displays the field (with a value of true) in STAC Browser as follows: Data Access: Public.
The first parameter is the field name, the second parameter describes the field using a "field specification". Please check the field specification for available options.
STAC Browser supports multiple languages.
If you use more than one language, you likely want to also translate the phrases that you've added above (in the example Data Access, Public and Private, assuming that Radiant Earth is a name and doesn't need to be translated).
All new phrases should be added to the active languages.
To add the phrases mentioned above you need to go through the folders in src/locales and in the folders of the active languages update the file custom.json as described in the section that describes adding custom phrases.
All new phrases must be added to the property fields.
Below you can find an example of an updated custom.json for the German language (folder de). It also includes the authConfig, which is contained in the file by default for other purposes.
{
"authConfig": {
"description": ""
},
"fields": {
"Data Access": "Zugriff auf die Daten",
"Public": "Öffentlich",
"Private": "Privat"
}
}You can also provide a couple of the config options through the root catalog.
You need to provide a field stac_browser and then you can set any of the following options:
apiCatalogPriorityauthConfig (except for the formatter as function)cardViewModecardViewSortcrossOriginMediadefaultThumbnailSizedisplayGeoTiffByDefaultshowThumbnailsAsAssetsSTAC Browser supports some non-standardized extensions to the STAC specification that you can use to improve the user-experience.
email (or mail) field with an e-mail address and the mail will be shown in the Browser.name field and it will be used as title in the tab header, the same applies for the core Asset Object.icon and a Browser-supported media type in any STAC entity will show an icon in the header and the lists of Catalogs, Collections and Items.Building the Dockerfile without changing any build options:
docker build -t stac-browser:v1 .Run the container for a specific URL:
docker run -p 8080:8080 -e SB_catalogUrl="https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1/" stac-browser:v1STAC Browser is now available at http://localhost:8080
You can pass further options to STAC Browser to customize it to your needs.
The build-only options
pathPrefix and historyMode
can be provided as a
build argument
when building the Dockerfile.
For example:
docker build -t stac-browser:v1 --build-arg pathPrefix="/browser/" --build-arg historyMode=hash .All other options, except the ones that are explicitly excluded from CLI/ENV usage,
can be passed as environment variables when running the container.
For example, to run the container with a pre-defined
catalogUrl and catalogTitle:
docker run -p 8080:8080 -e SB_catalogUrl="https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1/" -e SB_catalogTitle="Earth Search" stac-browser:v1If you want to pass all the other arguments to npm run build directly, you can modify to the Dockerfile as needed.
STAC browser is now available at http://localhost:8080/browser
Since version 3.1.1, you can add an existing image from Packages to your docker-compose.yml:
services:
stac-browser:
image: ghcr.io/radiantearth/stac-browser:latest
ports:
- 8080:8080
environment:
SB_catalogUrl: "https://localhost:7188"We are happy to review and accept Pull Requests. STAC Browser is following the STAC code of conduct.
STAC Browser uses Vue and vue-cli, so you need a recent version of NodeJS and npm installed.
You can run the following commands (see also "Get started" above):
npm run install: Install the dependencies, this is required once at the beginning.npm start: Start the development servernpm run lint: Lint the source code filesnpm run build: Compile the source code into deployable files for the web. The resulting files can be found in the folder dist and you can then deploy STAC Browser on a web host. There are two other variants:
npm run build:report: Same as above, but also generates a bundle size report (see dist/report.html), which should not be deployed.npm run build:minimal: Same as above, but tries to generate a minimal version without bundle size report and without source maps.npm run i18n:fields: Generates an updated version of the locales from the stac-fields package.The release process is documented separately.
You can translate STAC Browser into other languages. You can also use one of the existing languages and provide an alternate version for a specifc country, e.g. a Australian English (en-AU) version of the US-English language pack (en).
Please follow this guide:
en folder (or any other language without a country code that you want to base the translation on).
en folder, you have to remove the leading // from the line // { fields: require('./fields.json') } in the file default.js.supportedLocales) in the config.js file..github/CODEOWNERS) for this language (we'll invite you to this repository after you've opened a PR). Persons contributing languages are expected to maintain them long-term! If you are not able to maintain the language pack, please indicate so in the PR and we'll release it separately..json files, most importantly config.json, fields.json and texts.json.
en-IN based on en) you can delete individual files and import existing files from other languages in default.js.datepicker.js, duration.js and validation.js files to import the existing definitions from their corresponding external packages, but you could also define the specifics yourself.npm start) and navigating to the STAC Browser instance in your browser (usually http://localhost:8080).The following sponsors have provided a substantial amount of funding for STAC Browser in the past: