Introduction

Purpose

This user manual provides instructions for using the PDS web crawler, which is a tool for extracting data from PDS archive and web service and transforming it into a format compatible with STAC format.

The goal is then to ingest the STAC data into the PDSSP hub to make it available in the infrastructure. This ingestion allows to answer two use cases:

• knowing the available data

• to select these data to send them to online processing services

Context

The Planetary Surfaces Data and Services Pole is a research infrastructure dedicated to the management and distribution of data and services related to the surface of planets and celestial bodies. The pole is managed by the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES), in collaboration with other international research institutions and organizations.

The Planetary Surfaces Data and Services Pole provides scientists, engineers, and end-users with easy and quick access to high-quality data and services for the study of the surface of different planets and celestial bodies. It also offers tools and resources for the visualization, analysis, and interpretation of this data.

The data and services available through the Planetary Surfaces Data and Services Pole cover a wide range of research areas, such as geology, topography, meteorology, mapping, imaging, spectroscopy, and modeling. The main sources of data are space missions and ground-based telescopes, such as Mars Express, Venus Express, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, as well as other space exploration missions.