NASACMR Search Collections

Overview

Search NASA's Common Metadata Repository (CMR) for Earth observation datasets and satellite collections. CMR is NASA's centralized metadata repository hosting 40,000+ collections from NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) missions. Search for climate, atmospheric, ocean, land surface, cryosphere, and space weather datasets from satellites like MODIS, Landsat, GOES, Sentinel, GRACE, ICESat, and more. Returns dataset titles, summaries, temporal coverage, data centers, processing levels, and access links.

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

378ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "data_center": {
      "description": "Filter by data center short name. Examples: 'NSIDC', 'PODAAC', 'GES_DISC', 'LAADS', 'LP DAAC'",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "keyword": {
      "description": "Free-text keyword search. Examples: 'sea surface temperature', 'land cover', 'atmospheric CO2', 'Arctic sea ice', 'precipitation', 'vegetation index NDVI'",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "page_size": {
      "description": "Number of results to return (default 10, max 2000)",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "platform": {
      "description": "Filter by satellite/instrument platform. Examples: 'Terra', 'Aqua', 'Landsat-8', 'GOES-16', 'ICESat-2'",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "keyword"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{
  "keyword": ""
}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_NASACMR_search_collections

Tool name

NASACMR_search_collections

Added

2026-05-01 00:58Z

Tags

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