🪐 ✨ Earthdata MCP Server

Earthdata MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides tools to interact with NASA Earth Data. It enables efficient dataset discovery and retrieval for Geospatial analysis.

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Usage with Claude Desktop

To use this with Claude Desktop, add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "earthdata": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "datalayer/earthdata-mcp-server:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Components

Tools

The server currently offers 2 tools:

1. search_earth_datasets

• Search for datasets on NASA Earthdata.
• Input:
  • search_keywords (str): Keywords to search for in the dataset titles.
  • count (int): Number of datasets to return.
  • temporal (tuple): (Optional) Temporal range in the format (date_from, date_to).
  • bounding_box (tuple): (Optional) Bounding box in the format (lower_left_lon, lower_left_lat, upper_right_lon, upper_right_lat).
• Returns: List of dataset abstracts.

2. search_earth_datagranules

• Search for data granules on NASA Earthdata.
• Input:
  • short_name (str): Short name of the dataset.
  • count (int): Number of data granules to return.
  • temporal (tuple): (Optional) Temporal range in the format (date_from, date_to).
  • bounding_box (tuple): (Optional) Bounding box in the format (lower_left_lon, lower_left_lat, upper_right_lon, upper_right_lat).
• Returns: List of data granules.

Building from Source

docker build -t datalayer/earthdata-mcp-server .