# DLR

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dlr/  
**Website:** https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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.

## Kin Score — 38.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 59.9 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 34.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (10)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Dlr Agentic Access** — 13 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Dlr Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Dlr Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Earth Observation, Remote Sensing, Satellite Data, Geospatial, Aerospace, Open Data, OGC, STAC, Atmospheric Science, Digital Elevation Models

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/dlr/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.