Guides / how-to-connect-dea-stac-api-australia
AU Federal gov
How to connect Digital Earth Australia STAC API
Geoscience Australia
Digital Earth Australia (DEA) publishes satellite Earth-observation collections through a STAC API run by Geoscience Australia. It is one of the few AU federal sources we mark agent-ready: documented machine endpoint, live probe, open-read auth, and a stated licence.
Use this when you need Australian Landsat/Sentinel-style products via STAC search rather than a map UI.
Steps
- Find the base URL. Use
https://explorer.dea.ga.gov.au/stac— docs at https://knowledge.dea.ga.gov.au/guides/setup/gis/stac.html. - Auth. Catalogued as Open read — none; configure S3 requester-pays / unsigned as per DEA rio config.
- Try an example request.
curl -s 'https://explorer.dea.ga.gov.au/stac/search?limit=1' - Licence. CC-BY-4.0. Read the publisher terms before production use.
- base
- https://explorer.dea.ga.gov.au/stac
- docs
- https://knowledge.dea.ga.gov.au/guides/setup/gis/stac.html
- protocol
- STAC
- auth
- Open read — none; configure S3 requester-pays / unsigned as per DEA rio config
- licence
- CC-BY-4.0 · commercial use OK
- try
- curl -s 'https://explorer.dea.ga.gov.au/stac/search?limit=1'
- checked
- 2026-08-23 · no response · 15229 ms