diff --git a/docs/overview/changelog.md b/docs/overview/changelog.md index 9d277334..9b0aa65c 100644 --- a/docs/overview/changelog.md +++ b/docs/overview/changelog.md @@ -2,6 +2,31 @@ This document highlights the new features, datasets, and breaking changes between each release of the Planetary Computer. +## June 2022 + +This month's release includes many changes to our website tools, support for bulk STAC queries, several new datasets, and updates to our open-source dependencies and libraries. + +### Highlights + +- The Catalog and Explorer interfaces have been redesigned to accommodate the increased number of datasets available in the Planetary Computer. +- The entire website, including the Explorer, Catalog, and Documentation pages, have all been updated to work well on most mobile devices. +- We now provide snapshots of our STAC items for most of our collections as [GeoParquet](https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoparquet) datasets to support bulk STAC queries. + +### Bulk STAC queries with GeoParquet + +Many of our collections now include a `geoparquet-items` collection-level asset that links to a [GeoParquet](https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoparquet) dataset in Azure Blob Storage. Each row in these Parquet datasets is a STAC item. While most users should continue to use the normal STAC API, these Parquet datasets are a nice complement for workloads that need to return very many STAC items. + +See [Bulk STAC item queries with GeoParquet](../quickstarts/stac-geoparquet) for more. + +### New datasets + +This release includes several new datasets in our STAC API. Each of these links to the dataset details page, which includes an example notebook. + +- [Deltares Floods](https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/deltares-floods) +- [Deltares Water Availability](https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/deltares-water-availability) +- [Microsoft Buildings Footprint](https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/ms-buildings) +- [Kwando & Upper Zambezi Rivers HydroForecast](https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/kaza-hydroforecast) + ## May 2022 This release includes many new datasets, API enhancements, and updates to libraries. diff --git a/docs/overview/explorer.md b/docs/overview/explorer.md index 19ee9e77..444d6e32 100644 --- a/docs/overview/explorer.md +++ b/docs/overview/explorer.md @@ -21,15 +21,22 @@ features are visible at different pixel resolutions. ## Selecting datasets -Datasets that are available in the Explorer can be selected in the top dropdown, -which is grouped by category. +Datasets that are available in the Explorer can be browsed and selected by clicking the Dataset Selector at the top of the page -```{image} images/explorer-ds.jpg -:height: 200 +```{image} images/explorer-ds-selector.png +:height: 150 :name: Planetary Computer Explorer dataset selection :class: no-scaled-link ``` +In the catalog popup, you can view datasets by category and filter results against dataset metadata. The interface is similar to the main Data Catalog page. Select a dataset by click on the dataset card. + +```{image} images/explorer-ds-catalog.png +:height: 550 +:name: Planetary Computer Explorer dataset selection catalog +:class: no-scaled-link +``` + Datasets can also be opened in the Explorer directly from their [catalog][pc-catalog] page. These buttons will launch the Explorer at a location that has data availability and an interesting visualization. diff --git a/docs/overview/images/explorer-ds-catalog.png b/docs/overview/images/explorer-ds-catalog.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b9dcbb1d Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/overview/images/explorer-ds-catalog.png differ diff --git a/docs/overview/images/explorer-ds-selector.png b/docs/overview/images/explorer-ds-selector.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..51570184 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/overview/images/explorer-ds-selector.png differ diff --git a/docs/overview/images/explorer-ds.jpg b/docs/overview/images/explorer-ds.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index e949a9b8..00000000 Binary files a/docs/overview/images/explorer-ds.jpg and /dev/null differ