PANGAEA · Example Payload

Search By Bounding Box

Example Elasticsearch query to search for datasets within the North Atlantic Ocean bounding box, filtered to the last 10 years and sorted by publication year descending.

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Search By Bounding Box is an example object payload from PANGAEA, with 7 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

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Example Payload

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{
  "title": "Search PANGAEA Datasets by Bounding Box",
  "description": "Example Elasticsearch query to search for datasets within the North Atlantic Ocean bounding box, filtered to the last 10 years and sorted by publication year descending.",
  "endpoint": "https://ws.pangaea.de/es/pangaea/panmd/_search",
  "method": "POST",
  "headers": {
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  "request": {
    "query": {
      "bool": {
        "must": [
          {
            "match_all": {}
          }
        ],
        "filter": [
          {
            "geo_bounding_box": {
              "meanPosition": {
                "top_left": {
                  "lat": 65.0,
                  "lon": -80.0
                },
                "bottom_right": {
                  "lat": 20.0,
                  "lon": 20.0
                }
              }
            }
          },
          {
            "range": {
              "minDateTime": {
                "gte": "2015-01-01",
                "lte": "2025-12-31"
              }
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "size": 10,
    "from": 0,
    "sort": [
      {
        "agg-pubYear": {
          "order": "desc"
        }
      }
    ],
    "_source": [
      "URI",
      "agg-author",
      "agg-campaign",
      "minDateTime",
      "maxDateTime",
      "northBoundLatitude",
      "southBoundLatitude",
      "eastBoundLongitude",
      "westBoundLongitude",
      "nDataPoints"
    ]
  },
  "response": {
    "took": 45,
    "timed_out": false,
    "_shards": {
      "total": 5,
      "successful": 5,
      "skipped": 0,
      "failed": 0
    },
    "hits": {
      "total": 12847,
      "max_score": null,
      "hits": [
        {
          "_index": "pangaea",
          "_type": "panmd",
          "_id": "912345",
          "_score": null,
          "_source": {
            "URI": "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.912345",
            "agg-author": ["Mueller, A", "Behrens, M"],
            "agg-campaign": "MSM72",
            "minDateTime": "2019-05-01T00:00:00Z",
            "maxDateTime": "2019-05-28T00:00:00Z",
            "northBoundLatitude": 62.5,
            "southBoundLatitude": 55.2,
            "eastBoundLongitude": -10.3,
            "westBoundLongitude": -25.8,
            "nDataPoints": 8450
          },
          "sort": [2024]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}