Open geospatial infrastructure / Optical ground siting

Ground station intelligence, ready to use.

A versioned global catalog for identifying and comparing candidate optical ground-station sites—published with reproducible metadata and built for automated selection.

Current release

Live

2026-08-03-global

Candidates

544,011

H3 resolution 5 search areas

Alternatives

102,130,205

H3 resolution 9 site alternatives

Release size

12.61 GB

Immutable catalog artifacts

Partitions

96

Global data partitions

Release record

Global candidate catalog

The full release remains available for teams that need local analysis, independent validation, or integration into their own geospatial pipeline.

Release ID2026-08-03-global
Published03 Aug 2026 UTC
Schema1
Artifacts106
Fingerprint2731fcf99056900c…
curl -fLO https://data.dynamikorbits.com/optical-ground-siting/2026-08-03-global/manifest.json

Catalog resources

Inspect before downloading

Start with the machine-readable manifest. It records every artifact, byte size and integrity hash required to verify the release.

In development

Selection API

Request only the sites you need.

The upcoming API will run the selector server-side and return a compact result instead of requiring every client to download the complete catalog. The full release above is available today.

POST/v1/selections
{
  "release_id": "2026-08-03-global",
  "count": 1000,
  "format": "parquet"
}