ISTAC entrypoints
Use the root catalog to browse collections, or query GeoParquet directly with DuckDB.
Browser UI
Visual browsing will work after we deploy the browser build.
Open ISTAC Browser (coming soon)DuckDB query example
import duckdb
con = duckdb.connect()
con.execute("INSTALL spatial;")
con.execute("LOAD spatial;")
url = "https://airesearchcorps.org/OpenData/istac/v/2026-02-27_1200/collections/sentinel-2-l2a/geoparquet/items.parquet"
df = con.execute("""
SELECT id, datetime
FROM read_parquet(url)
WHERE datetime >= TIMESTAMP '2026-02-13'
AND datetime < TIMESTAMP '2026-02-27'
AND ST_Intersects(
geometry,
ST_MakeEnvelope(-117.30, 32.60, -117.00, 32.95)
)
LIMIT 50
""").df()
print(df.head())