Tilebox Datasets
Tilebox Datasets provides structured and high-performance satellite metadata access.
Tilebox Datasets ingests and structures metadata for efficient querying, significantly reducing data transfer and storage costs.
Create your own custom datasets and easily set up a private, custom, strongly-typed and highly-available catalogue, or explore any of the wide range of available public open data datasets available on Tilebox.
Learn more about datasets by exploring the following sections:
Datasets
Learn what dataset types are available on Tilebox and how to create, list and access them.
Collections
Learn what collections are and how to access them.
Querying Data
Find out how to access data from a collection for specific time intervals.
Ingesting Data
Learn how to ingest data into a collection.
For a quick reference to API methods or specific parameter meanings, check out the complete Datasets API Reference.
Terminology
Get familiar with some key terms when working with time series datasets.
Creating a datasets client
Prerequisites
After meeting these prerequisites, you can create a client instance to interact with Tilebox Datasets.
You can also set the TILEBOX_API_KEY
environment variable to your API key. You can then instantiate the client without passing the token
argument. Python will automatically use this environment variable for authentication.
Tilebox datasets provide a standard synchronous API by default but also offers an asynchronous client if needed.
Exploring datasets
After creating a client instance, you can start exploring available datasets. A straightforward way to do this in an interactive environment is to list all datasets and use the autocomplete feature in your Jupyter notebook.
The Console also provides an overview of all available datasets.
Errors you might encounter
AuthenticationError
AuthenticationError
occurs when the client fails to authenticate with the Tilebox API. This may happen if the provided API key is invalid or expired. A client instantiated with an invalid API key won’t raise an error immediately, but an error will occur when making a request to the API.
Next steps
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