STAC (Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog) Item Reader

FME Format Type Identifier

STAC_ITEM

Reader/Writer

Reader

Typical File Extensions

.json

STAC (Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog) is a JSON specification for indexing geospatial information.

STAC Item is a JSON representation of a single feature and contains one or more assets; each asset contains a URL to its associated raster image. JSON formats such as STAC ItemCollection, STAC Catalog, and STAC Collection can contain one or more STAC Items.

STAC Item Product and System Requirements

Format

Product

Operating System

Reader/Writer

FME Desktop License

FME Server

FME Cloud

Windows 64-bit

Linux

Mac

Reader

Available in FME Professional Edition and higher

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Reader Overview

FME considers a single JSON file, URL to JSON file, or URL to query that returns JSON data, to be a dataset.

The following JSON formats are supported:

  • STAC Item

  • STAC ItemCollection

  • STAC Catalog or STAC Collection, with an “items” link

  • STAC Catalog or STAC Collection, with one or more “item” links

A STAC Catalog or STAC Collection that only links to other Catalogs or Collections is not supported.

For all formats, FME requires STAC Items to implement the STAC Projection Extension.

The Feature Type for STAC Items is configurable with the Feature Type Name parameter. By default, the Feature Type will be [collection_name].[asset_name].

The STAC Item Reader produces one raster feature for each item.

FME Raster Features

FME raster features represent raster data and use several concepts that are unlike those used in the handling of vector data. The topics below describe how FME processes raster data.

About FME Rasters Tiling and Mosaicking
Raster Properties Band Combining and Separating
Band Properties Band and Palette Selection
Palette Properties Raster Processing
Compression Raster versus Vector Features
Pyramiding Raster File Naming
Interleaving World Files
Interpretation and Data Type TAB Files
Palette Resolution