Earthdata MCP Server

🪐 ✨ Earthdata MCP Server

Earthdata MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides tools to interact with NASA Earth Data. It enables efficient dataset discovery and retrieval for Geospatial analysis.

The following demo uses this MCP server to search for datasets and data granules on NASA Earthdata, the jupyter-earth-mcp-server to download the data in Jupyter and the jupyter-mcp-server to run further analysis.

Use with Claude Desktop

To use this with Claude Desktop, add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "earthdata": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "datalayer/earthdata-mcp-server:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

If you are using Linux, start Claude with the following command.

make claude-linux

Tools

The server offers 2 tools.

`search_earth_datasets`

Search for datasets on NASA Earthdata.
Input:
- search_keywords (str): Keywords to search for in the dataset titles.
- count (int): Number of datasets to return.
- temporal (tuple): (Optional) Temporal range in the format (date_from, date_to).
- bounding_box (tuple): (Optional) Bounding box in the format (lower_left_lon, lower_left_lat, upper_right_lon, upper_right_lat).
Returns: List of dataset abstracts.

`search_earth_datagranules`

Search for data granules on NASA Earthdata.
Input:
- short_name (str): Short name of the dataset.
- count (int): Number of data granules to return.
- temporal (tuple): (Optional) Temporal range in the format (date_from, date_to).
- bounding_box (tuple): (Optional) Bounding box in the format (lower_left_lon, lower_left_lat, upper_right_lon, upper_right_lat).
Returns: List of data granules.

Prompts

sealevel_rise_dataset
- Search for datasets related to sea level rise worldwide.
- Input:
  - start_year (int): Start year to consider.
  - end_year (int): End year to consider.
- Returns: Prompt correctly formatted.
ask_datasets_format
- To ask about the format of the datasets.
- Returns: Prompt correctly formatted.

Building

# or run `docker build -t datalayer/earthdata-mcp-server .`
make build-docker

If you prefer, you can pull the prebuilt images.

make pull-docker

This server cannot be installed

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license - permissive license

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remote-capable server

The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.

A Model Context Protocol server that enables efficient discovery and retrieval of NASA Earth Data for geospatial analysis.

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