The OpenSearch catalogue is being deprecated in favour of the STAC API: the service will be phased out in January 2026.
Also related services that use the OpenSearch catalogue as a source will be discontinued.
Here is a list of the affected services and their successor:
- OpenSearch catalogue (https://services.terrascope.be/catalogue/collections), will be replaced by STAC API (https://stac.terrascope.be/)
- experimental OpenSearch to STAC adapter, will be replaced by STAC API (https://stac.terrascope.be/)
- WMTS / WMS (https://services.terrascope.be/wmts/), will be replaced by WMTS v2 (https://wmts.terrascope.be/)
To guide users in the migration of OpenSearch to STAC, we provide example notebooks on how to interact with the STAC API and use tools from the STAC ecosystem. The beginner notebook shows how to query for products, inspect metadata, download data and visualize the result. The advanced notebook demonstrates how you can load STAC items into xarray Datasets using `odc-stac`. This notebooks uses features like lazy loading of data, only accessing the parts of the data that are needed for analysis and visualization. In this example, a time series is quickly created in the form of a GeoGIF.
The existing notebooks have also been updated to use the STAC API instead of OpenSearch.
