GEDI Finder

A web service for locating GEDI orbits (files) that intersect an input bounding box. Click here to download the GEDI Finder user guide.

Parameters

Name	Description	Default	Choices	Required
product	The GEDI product files to be returned.	GEDI01_B	GEDI01_B, GEDI02_A, GEDI02_B	False
version	The version of the GEDI product files to be returned.	001	001	False
bbox	Upper left (ul) and lower right (lr) corner coordinates, in lat,lon ordering, for the bounding box of the area of interest (e.g. [ul_lat,ul_lon,lr_lat,lr_lon]).			True
output	The output type for the results.	json	json, html	False

Example

./gedifinder?product=GEDI01_B&version=001&bbox=[42.0,-100,40.0,-96.0]

Response

{
	"data" [
		"https://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/GEDI/GEDI01_B.001/Year.Month.Day/GEDI01_B_2019219181545_O03694_T02694_02_003_01.h5", 
		"https://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/GEDI/GEDI01_B.001/Year.Month.Day/GEDI01_B_2019219164258_O03693_T05539_02_003_01.h5",
		"https://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/GEDI/GEDI01_B.001/Year.Month.Day/GEDI01_B_2019219024757_O03684_T04260_02_003_01.h5"
	],
	"error_code": null,
	"message": ""
}
	    

Example

./gedifinder?product=GEDI01_B&version=001&bbox=[42.0,-100,40.0,-96.0]&output=html

Response

https://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/GEDI/GEDI01_B.001/Year.Month.Day/GEDI01_B_2019156193255_O02717_T03903_02_003_01.h5
https://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/GEDI/GEDI01_B.001/Year.Month.Day/GEDI01_B_2019135041325_O02381_T00292_02_003_01.h5
https://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/GEDI/GEDI01_B.001/Year.Month.Day/GEDI01_B_2019157014400_O02721_T02484_02_003_01.h5
	    

Example

./gedifinder?product=GEDI01_B&version=001&bbox=[42.0,-100]&output=html

Response

The bounding box entered is invalid. The correct format is upper left and lower right corner coordinates, in lat,lon ordering, for the bounding box of the area of interest (e.g. [ul_lat,ul_lon,lr_lat,lr_lon]). 

KeyError