DLR

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) Earth Observation Center (EOC) provides public APIs for accessing Earth observation satellite data, remote sensing products, and scientific datasets from German aerospace research missions. Services include OGC-compliant WMS, WCS, CSW, STAC, and WMTS endpoints covering atmospheric trace gases, digital elevation models, land cover, hyperspectral imagery, water resources, and more from missions such as TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X, EnMAP, DESIS, and Sentinel series.

DLR publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Capabilities API, Data API, STAC API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Earth Observation, Remote Sensing, Satellite Data, Geospatial, and Aerospace.

The DLR catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

DLR’s developer surface includes developer portal, GitHub presence, and 12 more developer resources.

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34.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 74/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Earth Observation Remote Sensing Satellite Data Geospatial Aerospace Open Data OGC STACAtmospheric ScienceDigital Elevation Models

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 34.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 19.0 — up to +16.2 composite points
Access Clarity scores 31.6 — up to +13.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 55.9 — up to +11.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Space and Satellite (operators, earth observation, ground segment)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

STAC

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

EOC Imagery Web Map Service (WMS)

OGC Web Map Service providing visualization layers for DLR Earth observation imagery products including optical satellite data, hyperspectral imagery, and derived remote sensing...

EOC Imagery Web Coverage Service (WCS)

OGC Web Coverage Service providing direct download and extraction of coverage data for DLR Earth observation imagery products, supporting data subsetting and retrieval in scient...

EOC Basemap Web Map Service (WMS)

OGC Web Map Service providing basemap and core geospatial reference layers from DLR including global mosaics and topographic reference data derived from DLR satellite missions.

EOC Basemap Web Coverage Service (WCS)

OGC Web Coverage Service for DLR basemap and reference datasets including the SRTM X-SAR global digital elevation model mosaic, providing programmatic access to raw coverage data.

EOC Land Web Map Service (WMS)

OGC Web Map Service providing land cover and land use visualization layers from DLR research, including World Settlement Footprint, crop type mapping, forest structure, CORINE l...

EOC Atmosphere Web Map Service (WMS)

OGC Web Map Service providing atmospheric data visualization layers from DLR including Sentinel-5P TROPOMI products for ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, formaldehyde, an...

EOWEB GeoPortal API

Multi-mission web portal API for interactive access to the DLR Earth observation data holdings including browse-and-download features, time-series data access, OGC WMS/WFS/WMTS/...

DLR Capabilities API

essential characteristics of this API

DLR Data API

access to data (features)

DLR STAC API

The STAC API from DLR — 1 operation(s) for stac.

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Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

EOC EO Products Service Capabilities API

OPEN COLLECTION

EOC EO Products Service Capabilities Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

EOC EO Products Service Capabilities STAC API

OPEN COLLECTION

DLR API pricing

Not yet checked against DLR's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Open Access (EOC Geoservice)	Free
Guest Access (EOWEB GeoPortal)	Free
Registered User (EOWEB GeoPortal)	Free
Proposal-Based Scientific Access	Free
WDC-RSAT Open Access	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

DLR

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Eoc Stac Api Context

20 classes · 17 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

DLR — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

DLR EOC STAC API Schema

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Stac Collection Response

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Stac Search Request

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Dlr Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Dlr Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Dlr Agentic Access

13 operations

13 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Contact

Contact

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

DataCatalog

DataCatalog

DataAccess

DataAccess

Source (apis.yml)

name: DLR
description: The German Aerospace Center (DLR) Earth Observation Center (EOC) provides public APIs for accessing Earth observation
  satellite data, remote sensing products, and scientific datasets from German aerospace research missions. Services include
  OGC-compliant WMS, WCS, CSW, STAC, and WMTS endpoints covering atmospheric trace gases, digital elevation models, land cover,
  hyperspectral imagery, water resources, and more from missions such as TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X, EnMAP, DESIS, and Sentinel
  series.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.dlr.de/favicon.ico
tags:
- Earth Observation
- Remote Sensing
- Satellite Data
- Geospatial
- Aerospace
- Open Data
- OGC
- STAC
- Atmospheric Science
- Digital Elevation Models
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dlr/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- name: EOC Imagery Web Map Service (WMS)
  description: OGC Web Map Service providing visualization layers for DLR Earth observation imagery products including optical
    satellite data, hyperspectral imagery, and derived remote sensing products.
  image: https://www.dlr.de/favicon.ico
  humanURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/
  baseURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/imagery/wms
  tags:
  - WMS
  - Earth Observation
  - Imagery
  - OGC
  - Geospatial
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/imagery/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
  contact:
  - FN: Geoservice Manager
    email: geoservice@dlr.de
- name: EOC Imagery Web Coverage Service (WCS)
  description: OGC Web Coverage Service providing direct download and extraction of coverage data for DLR Earth observation
    imagery products, supporting data subsetting and retrieval in scientific formats.
  image: https://www.dlr.de/favicon.ico
  humanURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/
  baseURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/imagery/wcs
  tags:
  - WCS
  - Earth Observation
  - Data Download
  - OGC
  - Geospatial
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/imagery/wcs?SERVICE=WCS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
  contact:
  - FN: Geoservice Manager
    email: geoservice@dlr.de
- name: EOC Basemap Web Map Service (WMS)
  description: OGC Web Map Service providing basemap and core geospatial reference layers from DLR including global mosaics
    and topographic reference data derived from DLR satellite missions.
  image: https://www.dlr.de/favicon.ico
  humanURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/
  baseURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/basemap/wms
  tags:
  - WMS
  - Basemap
  - OGC
  - Geospatial
  - Reference Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/basemap/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
  contact:
  - FN: Geoservice Manager
    email: geoservice@dlr.de
- name: EOC Basemap Web Coverage Service (WCS)
  description: OGC Web Coverage Service for DLR basemap and reference datasets including the SRTM X-SAR global digital elevation
    model mosaic, providing programmatic access to raw coverage data.
  image: https://www.dlr.de/favicon.ico
  humanURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/
  baseURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/basemap/wcs
  tags:
  - WCS
  - Basemap
  - DEM
  - OGC
  - Geospatial
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/basemap/wcs?SERVICE=WCS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
  contact:
  - FN: Geoservice Manager
    email: geoservice@dlr.de
- name: EOC Land Web Map Service (WMS)
  description: OGC Web Map Service providing land cover and land use visualization layers from DLR research, including World
    Settlement Footprint, crop type mapping, forest structure, CORINE land cover, and urbanization products.
  image: https://www.dlr.de/favicon.ico
  humanURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/
  baseURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/land/wms
  tags:
  - WMS
  - Land Cover
  - Land Use
  - OGC
  - Geospatial
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/land/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
  contact:
  - FN: Geoservice Manager
    email: geoservice@dlr.de
- name: EOC Atmosphere Web Map Service (WMS)
  description: OGC Web Map Service providing atmospheric data visualization layers from DLR including Sentinel-5P TROPOMI
    products for ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, formaldehyde, and cloud fraction.
  image: https://www.dlr.de/favicon.ico
  humanURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/
  baseURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/atmosphere/wms
  tags:
  - WMS
  - Atmosphere
  - Air Quality
  - OGC
  - Sentinel-5P
  - TROPOMI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/atmosphere/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
  contact:
  - FN: Geoservice Manager
    email: geoservice@dlr.de
- name: EOWEB GeoPortal API
  description: Multi-mission web portal API for interactive access to the DLR Earth observation data holdings including browse-and-download
    features, time-series data access, OGC WMS/WFS/WMTS/TMS browsing services, and WCS-based data download for authorized
    users. Supports guest access for browsing and registered user access for ordering datasets.
  image: https://www.dlr.de/favicon.ico
  humanURL: https://eoweb.dlr.de/egp/
  baseURL: https://eoweb.dlr.de/egp/
  tags:
  - Earth Observation
  - Data Portal
  - Satellite Data
  - OGC
  - WMS
  - WCS
  - WMTS
  - WFS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eoweb.dlr.de/egp/docs/user/about_egp.html
  - type: Login
    url: https://eoweb.dlr.de/egp/resources/context/Login
  contact:
  - FN: DLR Earth Observation Center
    url: https://www.dlr.de/en/eoc/
- aid: dlr:dlr-capabilities-api
  name: DLR Capabilities API
  description: essential characteristics of this API
  humanURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  baseURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1
  tags:
  - Capabilities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dlr-capabilities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  - type: Conformance
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1/conformance
  - type: Collections
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1/collections
  - type: Search
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1/search
- aid: dlr:dlr-data-api
  name: DLR Data API
  description: access to data (features)
  humanURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  baseURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1
  tags:
  - Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dlr-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  - type: Conformance
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1/conformance
  - type: Collections
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1/collections
  - type: Search
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1/search
- aid: dlr:dlr-stac-api
  name: DLR STAC API
  description: The STAC API from DLR — 1 operation(s) for stac.
  humanURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  baseURL: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1
  tags:
  - STAC
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dlr-stac-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/about
  - type: Conformance
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1/conformance
  - type: Collections
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1/collections
  - type: Search
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1/search
  - type: ConformanceEndpoint
    url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/ogc/stac/v1/conformance
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.dlr.de/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/dlr-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/dlr-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dlr-domain-security.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/
- type: DataCatalog
  url: https://geoservice.dlr.de/data-assets/
- type: DataAccess
  url: https://www.dlr.de/en/eoc/research-transfer/topics/satellite-data/data-access
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/dlr-eoc
- type: Plans
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dlr/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dlr/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dlr/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://eoweb.dlr.de/egp/resources/context/Login
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.dlr.de/en/eoc/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.dlr.de/en/privacy-policy
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

DLR API — frequently asked questions

Does DLR have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from DLR, including EOC Imagery Web Map Service (WMS), EOC Imagery Web Coverage Service (WCS) and EOC Basemap Web Map Service (WMS), and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the DLR API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for DLR, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the DLR API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for DLR, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the DLR API ready for AI agents?

DLR has a Kin Score of 34.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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