# PANGAEA

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pangaea/  
**Website:** https://www.pangaea.de/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

PANGAEA is a data publisher and library for earth and environmental science, providing open access to geoscientific datasets including ocean data, climate records, sediment cores, and environmental measurements from scientific expeditions worldwide.

## Kin Score — 29.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 53.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 22.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 22.3 (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 | verified |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (9)

- **PANGAEA Data Download Service - Filter by DOI** — REST service for retrieving tabular dataset data filtered by dataset DOI and parameter values. Supports column selection, value filtering with range queries, and multiple filter...
- **PANGAEA Data Download Service - Filter by Geo Parameters** — REST service for retrieving geoscientific measurements filtered by geographic bounding box, temporal range, depth constraints, and PANGAEA parameter IDs. Ideal for extracting cr...
- **PANGAEA Bathymetry WMS** — OGC-compliant Web Map Service providing bathymetric (ocean depth) map layers for integration into GIS software. Hosted by AWI and based on PANGAEA bathymetry data collected from...
- **PANGAEA Term Dictionary API** — Elasticsearch-backed REST API for querying PANGAEA's controlled vocabulary and term dictionary used for classifying datasets by topic, parameter, and method.
- **PANGAEA DOI Filter API** — Filter dataset data by DOI and parameter values
- **PANGAEA Geo Filter API** — Filter cross-dataset data by geographic and temporal constraints
- **PANGAEA OAI-PMH API** — Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0
- **PANGAEA Search API** — Full-text and faceted dataset search
- **PANGAEA Terms API** — Controlled vocabulary and term dictionary

## Agentic access (1)

- **Pangaea Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 2 acting

## Security (2)

- **Pangaea Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Pangaea Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Earth Science, Ocean Data, Climate Records, Environmental Science, Geoscience, Open Data, Scientific Data

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