Harmony Documentation

§ Overview

Harmony provides access to services that can transform data from NASA's Earth Observing Systems Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAAC). Transformations can be requested using one of two Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) inspired APIs.

Data processed by Harmony is staged in AWS S3 buckets owned by NASA or optionally in user owned S3 buckets. Harmony provides signed URLs or temporary access credentials to users for data staged in NASA S3 buckets.

Data transformation requests are executed as jobs in Harmony. Harmony provides the ability for users to monitor and interact with long-running jobs, both programmatically through an API and via a web-based user interface.

This document describes the APIs and endpoints Harmony provides. You can use these APIs and endpoints to directly interact with Harmony, but the recommended official way to interact with Harmony is through Harmony-Py.

This documentation covers the following:

§ Getting Started

All users will need an Earthdata Login (EDL) account in order to access NASA data and services. Once a user has an EDL username and password they will need to use these when accessing Harmony. They can be used directly in a browser request (the browser will prompt for them), in another client like curl, or in code.

For curl or in code the easiest approach is to place your EDL credentials in a .netrc file.

A sample .netrc file looks like this


machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov login my-edl-user-name password my-edl-password

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Example 2 - Sample .netrc file

Make sure that this file is only readable by the current user or you will receive an error stating "netrc access too permissive."

$ chmod 0600 ~/.netrc
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Example 3 - Setting permissions on the .netrc file (Unix/macOS)

Alternatively users can generate an EDL bearer token directly and pass this to Harmony using an Authorization: Bearer header.

§ Passing credentials with curl

Use the -n flag to use your .netrc file with curl. You will also need to pass the -L flag (to handle the redirect from Harmony to EDL and back) and the -b and -j flags to properly handle cookies used during the authentication.


curl -Lnbj https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/C1234208438-POCLOUD/ogc-api-coverages/1.0.0/collections/bathymetry/coverage/rangeset

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Example 4 - Curl flags to handle EDL authentication when using a .netrc file

To work directly with a bearer token from EDL you can use an Authorization: Bearer my-bearer-token header as follows:


curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <my-bearer-token>" https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/C1234208438-POCLOUD/ogc-api-coverages/1.0.0/collections/bathymetry/coverage/rangeset

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Example 5 - Using a bearer token with curl

§ Passing credentials in code

The following Python example uses the netrc, request, and cookiejar libraries to set up authentication with EDL. No error handling is included in this example.


import netrc
from urllib import request, parse
from http.cookiejar import CookieJar

def setup_earthdata_login_auth(endpoint):
    """
    Set up the request library so that it authenticates against the given Earthdata Login
    endpoint and is able to track cookies between requests.  This uses the .netrc file.
    """
    username, _, password = netrc.netrc().authenticators(endpoint)
    manager = request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
    manager.add_password(None, endpoint, username, password)
    auth = request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(manager)

    jar = CookieJar()
    processor = request.HTTPCookieProcessor(jar)
    opener = request.build_opener(auth, processor)
    request.install_opener(opener)

setup_earthdata_login_auth('urs.earthdata.nasa.gov')

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Example 6 - Authenticating in python

The username and password can also be set directly instead of using a .netrc file.

There is significant boiler-plate code involved in connecting to Harmony that can be avoided by using the harmony-py library. The equivalent code using harmony-py (when using a .netrc file) can be as simple as


from harmony import Client

harmony_client = Client() # defaults to Harmony production endpoint

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Example 7 - Using harmony-py to create a client with .netrc EDL authentication

harmony-py provides many other conveniences when using Harmony services. For these reasons harmony-py is the suggested way to access Harmony in code. For complete details see the documentation.

§ Using the Service APIs

This section provides an introduction to the Harmony service APIs for launching services for collections using OGC Coverages API, OGC EDR API, or WMS.

Each API requires a CMR collection concept ID or short name, and transformations can be performed using one of the following endpoints ({collectionId} and {variable} are placeholders):


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/{collectionId}/ogc-api-coverages/1.0.0/{variable}/coverage/rangeset

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Example 8 - OGC Coverages endpoint


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/ogc-api-edr/1.1.0/collections/{collectionId}/cube

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Example 9 - OGC EDR cube endpoint


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/ogc-api-edr/1.1.0/collections/{collectionId}/area

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Example 10 - OGC EDR area endpoint


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/{collectionId}/wms

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Example 11 - WMS endpoint

§ OGC Coverages Request Parameters

The primary Harmony services REST API conforms to the OGC Coverages API version 1.0.0. As such it accepts parameters in the URL path as well as query parameters.

§ URL Path Parameters

parameter description

collection (required) This is the NASA EOSDIS collection or data product. There are two options for inputting a collection of interest:
1. Provide a concept ID, which is an ID provided in the Common Metadata Repository (CMR) metadata
2. Use the data product short name, e.g. SENTINEL-1_INTERFEROGRAMS. Must be URL encoded.

variable (required) Names or concept ids of the UMM-Var variables to be retrieved, or "all" to retrieve all variables.
Multiple variables may be retrieved by separating them with a comma.
The psuedo-variable "parameter_vars" may be used, in which case the variables are specified using the variable query parameter or variable form data parameter. This is useful if you need to subset using many variables.

Table 1 - Harmony OGC Coverages API URL path (required) parameters

§ Query Parameters

parameter	description
subset	get a subset of the coverage by slicing or trimming along one axis. Harmony supports the axes "lat" and "lon" for spatial subsetting, and "time" for temporal, regardless of the names of those axes in the data files. Harmony also supports arbitrary dimension names for subsetting on numeric ranges for that dimension.
outputCrs	reproject the output coverage to the given CRS. Recognizes CRS types that can be
interpolation	specify the interpolation method used during reprojection and scaling
scaleExtent	scale the resulting coverage along one axis to a given extent
scaleSize	scale the resulting coverage along one axis to a given size
concatenate	requests results to be concatenated into a single result
granuleId	the CMR Granule ID for the granule which should be retrieved
granuleName	passed to the CMR search as the readable_granule_name parameter. Supports * and ? wildcards for multiple and single character matches. Wildcards can be used any place in the name, but leading wildcards are discouraged as they require a lot of resources for the underlying search
grid	the name of the output grid to use for regridding requests. The name must match the UMM
point	only collections that have a geometry that contains a spatial point are selected. The spatial point is provided as two numbers: * Longitude, coordinate axis 1 * Latitude, coordinate axis 2 The coordinate reference system of the values is WGS84 longitude/latitude.
width	number of columns to return in the output coverage
height	number of rows to return in the output coverage
forceAsync	if "true", override the default API behavior and always treat the request as asynchronous
format	the mime-type of the output format to return
label	the label(s) to add for the job that runs the request. Multiple labels can be specified as a comma-separated list. A label can contain any characters except for commas up to a 255 character limit. Labels will be rejected if deemed inappropriate. Labels are always converted to lower case.
maxResults	limits the number of input files processed in the request
skipPreview	if "true", override the default API behavior and never auto-pause jobs
ignoreErrors	if "true", continue processing a request to completion even if some items fail. If "false" immediately fail the request. Defaults to true
destinationUrl	destination url specified by the client; currently only s3 link urls are supported (e.g. s3://my-bucket-name/mypath) and will result in the job being run asynchronously
variable	the variable(s) to be used for variable subsetting. Multiple variables can be specified as a comma-separated list. This parameter is only used if the url `variable` path element is "parameter_vars"
average	requests the data to be averaged over either time or area

Table 2 - Harmony OGC Coverages API query parameters

For POST requests the body should be multipart/form-data and may also contain

shape: perform a shapefile subsetting request on a supported collection by passing the path to a GeoJSON file (*.json or .geojson), an ESRI Shapefile (.zip or .shz), or a kml file (.kml) as the "shape" parameter

A sample OGC Coverages request is as follows


curl -Lnbj "https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/C1234208438-POCLOUD/ogc-api-coverages/1.0.0/collections/bathymetry/coverage/rangeset?maxResults=1"

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Example 12 - Curl command for an OGC Coverages request

§ OGC EDR Request Parameters

The Harmony services REST API also conforms to the OGC EDR API version 1.1.0. As such it accepts parameters in the URL path as well as query parameters. Currently only the /position, /cube, /trajectory and /area routes are supported for spatial subsetting. Other EDR routes will be supported in the future.

§ URL Path Parameters

parameter	description
collection	(required) This is the NASA EOSDIS collection or data product. There are two options for inputting a collection of interest: 1. Provide a concept ID, which is an ID provided in the Common Metadata Repository (CMR) metadata 2. Use the data product short name, e.g. SENTINEL-1_INTERFEROGRAMS. Must be URL encoded.

Table 3 - Harmony OGC EDR API URL path (required) parameters

§ Common OGC EDR Query Parameters

parameter	description
z	Define the vertical levels to return data from. The value will override any vertical values defined in the BBOX query parameter. A range to return data for all levels between and including 2 defined levels i.e. z=minimum value/maximum value. For instance if all values between and including 10m and 100m z=10/100 A list of height values can be specified, i.e. z=value1,value2,value3. For instance if values at 2m, 10m and 80m are required z=2,10,80 An Arithmetic sequence using Recurring height intervals, the difference is the number of recurrences is defined at the start and the amount to increment the height by is defined at the end, i.e. z=Rn/min height/height interval. So if the request was for 20 height levels 50m apart starting at 100m: z=R20/100/50 When not specified data from all available heights SHOULD be returned
datetime	Either a date-time or an interval. Date and time expressions adhere to RFC 3339. Intervals may be bounded or half-bounded (double-dots at start or end). Examples: * A date-time: "2018-02-12T23:20:50Z" * A bounded interval: "2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/2018-03-18T12:31:12Z" * Half-bounded intervals: "2018-02-12T00:00:00Z/.." or "../2018-03-18T12:31:12Z" Only resources that have a temporal property that intersects the value of `datetime` are selected. If a feature has multiple temporal properties, it is the decision of the server whether only a single temporal property is used to determine the extent or all relevant temporal properties.
parameter-name	Names or concept ids of the UMM-Var variables to be retrieved. Without parameter-name or a value of "all" to retrieve all variables. Multiple variables may be retrieved by separating them with a comma.
crs	reproject the output coverage to the given CRS. Recognizes CRS types that can be
f	the mime-type of the output format to return

Table 4 - Harmony OGC EDR API query parameters common to all spatial subsetting routes

§ Harmony Extended Query Parameters for OGC EDR Routes

parameter	description
concatenate	requests results to be concatenated into a single result
forceAsync	if "true", override the default API behavior and always treat the request as asynchronous
destinationUrl	destination url specified by the client; currently only s3 link urls are supported (e.g. s3://my-bucket-name/mypath) and will result in the job being run asynchronously
granuleId	the CMR Granule ID for the granule which should be retrieved
granuleName	passed to the CMR search as the readable_granule_name parameter. Supports * and ? wildcards for multiple and single character matches. Wildcards can be used any place in the name, but leading wildcards are discouraged as they require a lot of resources for the underlying search
grid	the name of the output grid to use for regridding requests. The name must match the UMM
ignoreErrors	if "true", continue processing a request to completion even if some items fail. If "false" immediately fail the request. Defaults to true
interpolation	specify the interpolation method used during reprojection and scaling
label	the label(s) to add for the job that runs the request. Multiple labels can be specified as a comma-separated list. A label can contain any characters up to a 255 character limit, but if a label contains commas the request can only be a POST with with the label field in the body. It is best practice to avoid commas in labels. Labels will be rejected if deemed inappropriate. Labels are always converted to lower case.
maxResults	limits the number of input files processed in the request
scaleExtent	scale the resulting coverage along one axis to a given extent
scaleSize	scale the resulting coverage along one axis to a given size
skipPreview	if "true", override the default API behavior and never auto-pause jobs
subset	get a subset of the coverage by slicing or trimming along one axis. Harmony supports arbitrary dimension names for subsetting on numeric ranges for that dimension.
height	number of rows to return in the output coverage
width	number of columns to return in the output coverage
average	requests the data to be averaged over either time or area

Table 5 - Harmony extended parameters for all OGC EDR API routes

§ OGC EDR Cube Subsetting Query Parameters

parameter	description
bbox	The bounding box is provided as four or six numbers, depending on whether the coordinate reference system includes a vertical axis (height or depth): * Lower left corner, coordinate axis 1 * Lower left corner, coordinate axis 2 * Minimum value, coordinate axis 3 (optional) * Upper right corner, coordinate axis 1 * Upper right corner, coordinate axis 2 * Maximum value, coordinate axis 3 (optional) The coordinate reference system of the values is WGS 84 longitude/latitude (http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84) unless a different coordinate reference system is specified in the parameter bbox-crs. For WGS 84 longitude/latitude the values are in most cases the sequence of minimum longitude, minimum latitude, maximum longitude and maximum latitude. However, in cases where the box spans the antimeridian the first value (west-most box edge) is larger than the third value (east-most box edge). If the vertical axis is included, the third and the sixth number are the bottom and the top of the 3-dimensional bounding box. If a feature has multiple spatial geometry properties, it is the decision of the server whether only a single spatial geometry property is used to determine the extent or all relevant geometries.

parameter

description

bbox

The bounding box is provided as four or six numbers, depending on whether the coordinate reference system includes a vertical axis (height or depth):
* Lower left corner, coordinate axis 1
* Lower left corner, coordinate axis 2
* Minimum value, coordinate axis 3 (optional)
* Upper right corner, coordinate axis 1
* Upper right corner, coordinate axis 2
* Maximum value, coordinate axis 3 (optional)
The coordinate reference system of the values is WGS 84 longitude/latitude (http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84) unless a different coordinate reference system is specified in the parameter bbox-crs. For WGS 84 longitude/latitude the values are in most cases the sequence of minimum longitude, minimum latitude, maximum longitude and maximum latitude. However, in cases where the box spans the antimeridian the first value (west-most box edge) is larger than the third value (east-most box edge). If the vertical axis is included, the third and the sixth number are the bottom and the top of the 3-dimensional bounding box. If a feature has multiple spatial geometry properties, it is the decision of the server whether only a single spatial geometry property is used to determine the extent or all relevant geometries.

Table 6 - OGC EDR API cube parameters

A sample OGC EDR cube request is as follows


curl -Lnbj "https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/ogc-api-edr/1.1.0/collections/C1234208438-POCLOUD/cube?maxResults=1&bbox=-140,20,-50,60" -o output

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Example 13 - Curl command for an OGC EDR cube request

§ OGC EDR Area Subsetting Query Parameters

parameter	description
coords	(required) A Well Known Text (WKT) POLYGON or MULTIPOLYGON string. Coordinates MUST be in counter-clockwise order.

Table 7 - OGC EDR API area parameters

A sample OGC EDR area request is as follows


curl -Lnbj "https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/ogc-api-edr/1.1.0/collections/C1234208438-POCLOUD/area?maxResults=1&parameter-name=all&coords=POLYGON%20%28%28-65.390625%20-13.239945%2C%20-29.882813%20-50.958427%2C%2017.929688%2030.145127%2C%20-65.390625%20-13.239945%29%29" -o output

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Example 14 - Curl command for an OGC EDR area request

§ OGC EDR Position Subsetting Query Parameters

parameter	description
coords	(required) A Well Known Text (WKT) POINT or MULTIPOINT string.

Table 8 - OGC EDR API position parameters

A sample OGC EDR position request is as follows


curl -Lnbj "https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/ogc-api-edr/1.1.0/collections/C1234208438-POCLOUD/position?maxResults=1&parameter-name=all&coords=POINT%20(-40%2010)" -o output

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Example 15 - Curl command for an OGC EDR position request

§ OGC EDR Trajectory Subsetting Query Parameters

parameter	description
coords	(required) A Well Known Text (WKT) LINESTRING or MULTILINESTRING string.

Table 9 - OGC EDR API trajectory parameters

A sample OGC EDR trajectory request is as follows


curl -Lnbj "https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/ogc-api-edr/1.1.0/collections/C1234208438-POCLOUD/trajectory?maxResults=1&parameter-name=all&coords=LINESTRING(-40%2010%2C%2030%2010)" -o output

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Example 16 - Curl command for an OGC EDR trajectory request

§ WMS Requests

Harmony provides an implementation of the OGC Web Map Service (WMS) API version 1.3.0. Harmony only supports the GetCapabilities and GetMap requests.

The API uses both URL path and query parameters.

§ URL Path Parameters

parameter	required	description
collection	Y	this parameter is the same as the `collection` parameter described in the OGC Coverages API above.

Table 10 - Harmony WMS API URL path (required) parameters

§ Common Query Parameters

parameter	required	description
service	Y	the service for the request. Must be equal to 'WMS'
version	Y	the WMS version to use. Must be equal to '1.3.0'
request	Y	the action being requested. Valid values are `GetCapabilities` and `GetMap`

Table 11 - Required query parameters for both GetCapabilities and GetMap

§ Query Parameters for GetMap - Standard WMS

parameter	required	description
layers	Y	comma-separated list of layer names to display on map
bbox	Y	the bounding box for the map as comma separated values in WSEN order
crs	Y	Spatial Reference System for map output. Value is in form EPSG:nnn
format	Y	output format mime-type
styles	Y	Styles in which layers are to be rendered. Value is a comma-separated list of style names, or empty if default styling is required. Style names may be empty in the list, to use default layer styling.
width	Y	width in pixels of the output
height	Y	height in pixels of the output
bgcolor	N	Background color for the map image. Value is in the form RRGGBB. Default is FFFFFF (white).
exceptions	N	Format in which to report exceptions. Default value is application/vnd.ogc.se_xml
transparent	N	whether the output background should be transparent (`true` or `false`). default is `false`

Table 12 - Standard WMS query parameters for GetMap

§ Additional Harmony parameters for WMS requests

parameter	required	description
dpi	N	the dots-per-inch (DPI) resolution for image output
map_resolution	N	the DPI resolution for image output
granuleId	N	the CMR Granule ID for the granule of interest
granuleName	N	passed to the CMR search as the readable_granule_name parameter. Supports * and ? wildcards for multiple and single character matches. Wildcards can be used any place in the name, but leading wildcards are discouraged as they require a lot of resources for the underlying search

Table 13 - Additional (non-OGC) query parameters for Harmony WMS queries

GetCapabilities requests return an XML document, while GetMap requests return an image.

§ Available Services

Harmony requests are declarative rather than imperative, so a request specifies the particular data of interest, time range of interest, spatial bounds of interest, desired output format, etc. Harmony then matches this declaration against available services and invokes the matching services on behalf of the user. All of which is to say the user does not request specific services directly. Despite this, it can be useful for a user to know what services are available, what their capabilities are, and which services can work together.

§ Service Versions

Harmony services run in containers in pods in a Kubernetes cluster. It is not possible for users to interact directly with these pods, but it may be useful to know some of the details about the running versions. The specific docker image and tag for each service can be retrieved from the versions route.

§ Service Capabilities

The following tables provide an overview of the deployed services with a description of each and what capabilities they provide.

Name: harmony/download
Description:

Service that performs no processing, it only returns download links for all of the matched granules from the CMR.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4
N	N	N	N	N	N	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4

Name: giovanni-time-series-adapter
Description:

A service to compose the Giovanni URL for a time series and invoke Giovanni service to produce output file to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of Earth science remote sensing data without having to download the data.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	N	text/csv
N	N	Y	Y	N	N	N	text/csv

Name: podaac/l2-subsetter
Description:

Implementation of the L2 swath subsetter based on python, xarray and netcdf4.

Works with Trajectory (1D) and Along track/across track data.
Works with NetCDF and HDF5 inputfiles
Variable subsetting supported
works with hierarchical groups Outputs netcdf4.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4
Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4

Name: podaac/concise
Description:

Service capabale of "concatenating" multiple netCDF files into a single netCDF files. The resulting file has an extra dimension with size equal to the number of input files where each slice in that dimension corresponds to the data from one of the inputs.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	DEFAULT	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4
N	N	N	N	N	DEFAULT	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4

Name: podaac/l2-subsetter-concise
Description:

Chained Service of the PODAAC L2 swath subsetter and PODAAC concise services.

PODAAC L2 swath subsetter

Works with Trajectory (1D) and Along track/across track data.
Works with NetCDF and HDF5 inputfiles
Variable subsetting supported
works with hierarchical groups Outputs netcdf4.

PODAAC concise services

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	DEFAULT	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4
Y	N	Y	Y	N	DEFAULT	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4

Name: sds/trajectory-subsetter
Description:

A service that supports L2 segmented trajectory (not swath) data. Currently uses the same C++ binary as is on-premises in SDPS, to offer variable, temporal, bounding box spatial and polygon spatial subsetting. This subsetter also ensures valid segment indices and sizes following transformation.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	N	application/x-hdf
Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	application/x-hdf

Name: sds/HOSS-geographic
Description:

A service that currently supports L3/L4 geographically gridded collections, offering variable, temporal, named dimension, bounding box spatial and shape file spatial subsetting.

Accesses NetCDF-4 files hosted in Hyrax cloud service (OPeNDAP), and retrieves the requested list of variables, plus all those that are required to support meaningful downstream operations upon those data (e.g. associated coordinate variables).

This service is currently operated from the same Docker image as the sds/variable-subsetter service.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4
Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4

Name: sds/HOSS-projection-gridded
Description:

A service that currently supports L3/L4 projection-gridded collections, offering variable, temporal, named dimension, bounding box spatial and shape file spatial subsetting.

This service is currently operated from the same Docker image as the sds/variable-subsetter service.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4
Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	application/netcdf,application/x-netcdf4

Name: ldds/subset-band-name
Description:

Subset by Band and Name service capable of subsetting HDF4/HDF-EOS2 SDS variables by name and band.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	N	application/x-hdf
N	N	N	Y	Y	N	N	application/x-hdf

Name: ldds/geoloco
Description:

Service capable of reprojecting, resampling, regridding, and spatial and SDS subsetting HDF4/HDF-EOS2 SDS variables. The wrapper also retrieves the geolocation file name from the input file Core Metadata and downloads it from S3. Works with L1B-L4 granules (L1B and L2 granule SDSs are automatically regridded with default setting granule resolution and geographic projection).

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	Y	application/x-hdf
Y	N	N	Y	Y	N	Y	application/x-hdf

Name: sds/HyBIG
Description:

The Harmony Browse Image Generator (HyBIG) supports the conversion of GeoTIFF inputs to Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) compatible PNG or JPEG outputs. This includes, where necessary, conversion to a GIBS supported Coordinate Reference System (CRS). Other projections can be requested, but will not be compatible with GIBS.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	Y	image/png,image/jpeg
N	N	N	Y	N	N	Y	image/png,image/jpeg

Name: l2-subsetter-batchee-stitchee-concise
Description:

Subsetter And Multi-dimensional Batched Aggregation in Harmony (SAMBAH)

Chained Service of the L2-subsetter, Batchee, STITCHEE, and CONCISE services. Additional documentation here.

L2 swath subsetter (L2-subsetter)

Works with trajectory (1D) and along track/across track data.
Works with netCDF and HDF5 input files.
Supports variable subsetting.
Supports temporal subsetting.
Supports shape subsetting
Works with hierarchical groups.
Outputs netCDF4.

Batchee

Service groups together filenames so that further operations (such as concatenation) can be performed separately on each group of files.

STITCH by Extending a dimEnsion (Stitchee)

Service concatenates a group of netCDF data files along an existing dimension.

CONCatenation SErvice (CONCISE)

Service capable of "concatenating" multiple netCDF files into a single netCDF file. The resulting file has an extra dimension with size equal to the number of input files, where each slice in that dimension corresponds to the data from one of the input files.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	Y	N	application/netcdf4
Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	N	application/netcdf4

Name: net2cog
Description:

Converts NetCDF files to COG. Includes extension for running in NASA Harmony. https://github.com/podaac/net2cog

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	N	image/tiff
N	N	N	Y	N	N	N	image/tiff

Name: asf/opera-rtc-s1-browse
Description:

Service that generates GIBS-compliant browse imagery for the OPERA_L2_RTC-S1 collection

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	Y	image/png
N	N	N	N	N	N	Y	image/png

Name: nasa/harmony-gdal-adapter
Description:

Service translating Harmony operations to GDAL commands. Supports spatial bounding box, temporal, variable, and shapefile, reprojection, and output to NetCDF4 or COG. Operates on input file types supported by GDAL (most EOSDIS data). Most operations assume L3 data, though it is likely that some work on L2.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	Y	application/x-netcdf4,image/tiff
Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	application/x-netcdf4,image/tiff

Name: harmony/netcdf-to-zarr
Description:

Converts NetCDF4 files to the Zarr format as faithfully as possible, preserving metadata. The service attempts to optimize chunking in both time and space via heuristic algorithm in the output Zarr store.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	Y	N	application/x-zarr
N	N	N	N	N	Y	N	application/x-zarr

Name: harmony/service-example
Description:

Reference service that can be used to perform most operations supported by Harmony. Useful for testing new API features end-to-end on example data but not meant for production use.

Capabilities
subsetting					concatenation	reprojection	output formats
bounding box	shape	temporal	variable	multiple variable	N	Y	image/tiff,image/png,image/gif
Y	N	N	Y	Y	N	Y	image/tiff,image/png,image/gif

§ User Owned Buckets for Harmony Output

Users may store Harmony output directly in their own S3 buckets by specifying the bucket/path in their requests with the destinationUrl parameter. For example


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/C1234208438-POCLOUD/ogc-api-coverages/1.0.0/collections/bathymetry/coverage/rangeset?concatenate=true&subset=lon(-160%3A160)&subset=lat(-80%3A80)&skipPreview=true&maxResults=1&destinationUrl=3%3A%2F%2Fmy-staging-bucket

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Example 17 - Request to store output in user owned S3 bucket

would place the output in s3://my-example-bucket. Note that the value of destinationUrl must be a full S3 path and must be URL encoded.

Four things are required to enable Harmony to write to your bucket.

The bucket must be in the same AWS region as Harmony, i.e., us-west-2.
The bucket must have ACLs disabled. This is the default for S3 buckets.
Harmony must have permission to write to the bucket.
Harmony must have permission to check the bucket's location.

Numbers three and four on the list can be accomplished by setting an appropriate bucket policy. You can obtain a bucket policy for your bucket using the policy generator at https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/staging-bucket-policy and passing in the bucketPath query parameter. For example

https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/staging-bucket-policy?bucketPath=my-example-bucket

The bucketPath parameter can be one of the following

A bucket name, e.g., my-example-bucket
A bucket name + path, e.g., my-example-bucket/my/path
A full S3 url with our without a path, e.g., s3://my-example-bucket/my/path

The third option is compatible with the destinationUrl parameter for requests.

Bucket names must conform to the AWS bucket naming rules. The path must conform to the AWS object key naming guidelines. Characters listed under "Characters to Avoid" are not supported.

A sample policy generated by the endpoint is shown below:


{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "write permission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root"
      },
      "Action": "s3:PutObject",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "get bucket location permission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root"
      },
      "Action": "s3:GetBucketLocation",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket"
    }
  ]
}

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Example 18 - Sample bucket policy to enable writing Harmony output

§ Summary of Available Endpoints

All of the public endpoints for Harmony users other than the OGC Coverages, EDR, and WMS APIs are listed in the following table. The Coverages and WMS APIs are described in the Using the Service APIs section.

route	description
/	The Harmony landing page
/capabilities	Get harmony capabilities for the provided collection
/cloud-access	Generates AWS credentials for accessing processed data in S3
/docs	These documentation pages
/docs/api	The Swagger documentation for the OGC Coverages API
/jobs	The jobs API for getting job status, pausing/continuing/canceling jobs
/stac	The API for retrieving STAC catalog and catalog items for processed data
/staging-bucket-policy	The policy generator for external (user) bucket storage
/versions	Returns JSON indicating the image and tag each deployed service is running
/service-image-tag	The API for managing service image tags/versions
/workflow-ui	The Workflow UI for monitoring and interacting with running jobs

Table 14 - Harmony routes other than OGC Coverages and WMS

§ Get Harmony capabilities for the provided collection

Returns information related to what Harmony operations are supported for a given collection in JSON format. The collection can be identified by either collection concept id or short name.

§ Query Parameters

Either collectionId or shortName must be provided.

parameter	description
collectionId	Concept id of the collection to retrieve capabilities for
shortName	Short name of the collection to retrieve capabilities for
version	(optional) The version of the capabilities result format, currently only 1 or 2 is supported.

Table 15 - Harmony capabilities endpoint parameters

§ Response

The returned JSON response will have the configured capabilities in Harmony for the given collection in terms of supported features (e.g. variable subsetting, boundingbox subsetting, concatenation, reprojection, etc.), the output formats, the list of Harmony services that are applicable for the collection, the list of variables that are associated with the collection and the version of the capabilites result format. See below for the root level fields in the capabilites response and their descriptions:

field	description
conceptId	Concept id of the collection
shortName	Short name of the collection
variableSubset	(boolean) True if variable subsetting is supported by any of the Harmony services for the collection.
bboxSubset	(boolean) True if bounding box subsetting is supported by any of the Harmony services for the collection.
shapeSubset	(boolean) True if shape file subsetting is supported by any of the Harmony services for the collection.
concatenate	(boolean) True if concatenation is supported by any of the Harmony services for the collection.
reproject	(boolean) True if reprojection is supported by any of the Harmony services for the collection.
outputFormats	A list of supported output formats for the collection.
services	A list of JSON objects describing the supported Harmony services for the collection.
variables	A list of JSON objects describing the associated variables of the collection.
capabilitiesVersion	The version of the capabilities result format.

Table 16 - Harmony capabilities endpoint response fields

§ Getting Harmony capabilities for a given collection by collection concept id


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/capabilities?collectionId=<collection-concept-id>

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Example 19 - Getting Harmony capabilities for a given collection by collection concept id

§ Getting Harmony capabilities for a given collection by collection short name


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/capabilities?shortName=<collection-short-name>

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Example 20 - Getting Harmony capabilities for a given collection by collection short name

§ Monitoring Jobs with the Jobs API and the Workflow-UI

Jobs can be monitored using the jobs API as well as with the Workflow-UI web application.

There are two set of jobs API endpoints with the same sub paths and parameters: one with path jobs to view and control the current user's own jobs; the other with admin/jobs path to view and control all users' jobs if the current user has admin permission to do so. For simplicity, we will only list the ones for regular user below.

§ Getting the list of jobs for a user


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/jobs

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Example 21 - Getting the user's list of jobs using the jobs API

Returns the list of Harmony jobs submitted by the user. By default, 10 jobs are returned in the response. User can use the paging query parameters to page through the whole result set or/and change the number of jobs that will be returned in each page.

§ Query Parameters

parameter	description
page	Current page number
limit	Number of jobs in each page
label	Filters jobs to those which include at least one of the labels specified. Multiple labels can be specified using a comma-separated list.

Table 17 - Harmony jobs endpoint parameters

§ Response

The returned JSON response will list the total number of jobs that belong to the user, details of the jobs on the current page and links to traverse to the previous, next, first or last pages of the result set:

field	description
count	Total number of jobs
jobs	A list of JSON objects with fields describe the job in details. For details, see job status response.
links	A list of links to traverse to the previous, next, first or last pages of the result set.

Table 18 - Harmony jobs response fields

§ Getting job status

Get details for a given job.


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/jobs/<job-id>

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Example 22 - Getting job status

§ Response

The returned JSON response list the details of the given job:

field	description
username	Username that owns the job
status	Status of the job
message	Processing message of the job
progress	Percentage of the job processing progress. `100` for a job that has been processed completely.
createdAt	Timestamp when the job was submitted to Harmony
updatedAt	Timestamp when the job was last updated in Harmony
dataExpiration	Timestamp when the result data of the job will be cleaned up from Harmony
links	A list of JSON objects with links to STAC catalog and result data of the job
request	The original request url of the job
numInputGranules	number of input granules in the job
jobID	ID of the job in Harmony

Table 19 - Harmony job response fields

§ Pausing a job

User can pause a job with the following API call. The returned response is the same as the job status response with the job status as paused.


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/jobs/<job-id>/pause

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Example 23 - Pausing a running job

§ Resuming a paused job

User can resume a paused job with the following API call. The returned response is the same as the job status response with the job status as running.


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/jobs/<job-id>/resume

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Example 24 - Resuming a paused job

§ Canceling a job

User can cancel a job with the following API call. The returned response is the same as the job status response with the job status as canceled.


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/jobs/<job-id>/cancel

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Example 25 - Canceling a running job

§ Skipping preview

Jobs involving many granules will by default pause automatically after the first few granules are processed. This allows the user to examine the output to make sure things look right before waiting for the entire job to complete. If things looks good, the user can resume the paused job, if not they can cancel the paused job.

Note: The current threshold in this environment for the number of granules that will trigger automatic pausing of a job is 300.

If a user wishes to skip this step they can pass the skipPreview flag mentioned in the Services API section, or they can tell an already running job to skip the preview using the following:


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/jobs/<job-id>/skip-preview

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Example 26 - Skipping the preview on a many-granule job

§ Labeling Jobs

Labels can be applied to a job when a Harmony request is made using the label parameter documented in the Services API section. After a request is made the labels can be viewed in the job status page and in the workflow-ui.

Labels can be added to existing jobs by the job owner using an HTTP PUT request and specifying the job IDs and labels in the body of the PUT. An EDL bearer token must be provided and a Content-Type: application/json header. A curl example that adds two labels to two different jobs follows:

curl -bj https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/labels -XPUT -d '{"jobID": ["<YOUR FIRST JOB ID>", "<YOUR SECOND JOB ID>"], "label": ["foo", "bar"]}'  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: bearer <YOUR BEARER TOKEN>"
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Similarly, labels can be removed from one or more jobs using an HTTP DELETE:

curl -bj https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/labels   -XDELETE -d '{"jobID": ["<YOUR FIRST JOB ID>", "<YOUR SECOND JOB ID>"], "label": ["foo"]}'  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: bearer <YOUR BEARER TOKEN>"
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§ Retrieving STAC catalog and catalog items for processed data

Harmony uses STAC catalog to provide input and output, and communicate between services. The following endpoints provides access to the output STAC catalog and catalog items of a finished job.

§ Getting the STAC catalog of a single job


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/stac/<job-id>

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Example 27 - Getting the STAC catalog of a single job

§ Getting the STAC catalog item within a job's STAC catalog

The <item-index> is the index of the STAC catalog item within the job's output STAC catalog. It starts at 0.


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/stac/<job-id>/<item-index>

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Example 28 - Getting the STAC catalog item within a job's STAC catalog

§ Getting in region S3 AWS access keys using the cloud-access API

Harmony supports analysis in place without forcing a user to download the outputs from their requests. The results for each harmony request are stored in an AWS S3 bucket in the us-west-2 region. In order to access these results natively in S3, the user can get temporary AWS access credentials using the harmony cloud-access endpoints. Note that data can only be accessed from within the us-west-2 region.

§ Get AWS S3 access credentials as JSON


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/cloud-access

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Example 29 - Getting AWS S3 access credentials as JSON using the cloud-access API

The returned JSON response returns fields required to set the AWS S3 access credentials:

field	description
AccessKeyId	The AWS access key ID.
SecretAccessKey	The AWS secret access key.
SessionToken	The AWS session token associated with the access keys.
Expiration	The date and time when the access credentials expire.

Table 20 - Harmony cloud-access response fields

§ Get AWS S3 access credentials as a shell script to use in a terminal


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/cloud-access.sh

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Example 30 - Getting a shell script that can be sourced to set AWS S3 credentials

§ Getting the versions of images used in each of the Harmony backend service chains

Using the versions endpoint, a user can get a list of all of the docker images and versions used in harmony backend service chains. Service providers use this endpoint to verify the versions of their services deployed to an environment.

§ Get backend service version information


https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/versions

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Example 31 - Getting backend service versions using the versions API

The returned JSON response is an array of service version information with the following fields:

field	description
name	The name of the backend service chain as defined in services-uat.yml.
images	An array of the images used in the service chain.

Each image has the following fields:

field	description
image	The name of the docker image.
tag	The docker image tag.
lastUpdated	(optional) The time the image was last updated if available.
imageDigest	(optional) The image digest if available.

Table 21 - Harmony versions response fields