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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
title description endpoint method headers request response
Example Payload
{
"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]
}
]
}
}
}
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