Planetary computer · mcp server

Enabling Agents with Tools to Observe the Earth

Plug Microsoft Planetary Computer’s STAC catalog into VS Code, Cursor, Claude, or any MCP-aware agent. Let agents pull EO modalities they need: optical, SAR, DEM, land cover, and render it in RGB to observe and reason about satellite scenes.

npx planetary-computer-mcpzero install · no API keys · no docker / python

STAC Collections

100+

Optical, SAR, DEM, Land Cover

Zero install

npx

No docker or python dependencies

Outputs

geotiff, zarr, jpg, png

Allow agents to see EO data

installation

VS Code logo

vscode extension

Install in VSCode, Cursor, Antigrain, etc.

npm logo

npm package

Run instantly via npx

built with

geotiff.js logo

geotiff.js

Pure JS library for geotiff processing

zarrita.js logo

zarrita.js

Toolkit for reading/writing Zarr climate datasets

DuckDB logo

duckdb-wasm

WebAssembly-based DuckDB for processing geometry collections

sample scenes

Render MSI, SAR, DEM, LULC, and more to RGB images for agentic analysis.

Sentinel-2 L2A sample scene

Sentinel-2 L2A

Los Angeles · Optical

Sentinel-1 RTC sample scene

Sentinel-1 RTC

Coastal Miami · SAR

NAIP sample scene

NAIP

Los Angeles · 0.6m RGBIR

ESA WorldCover sample scene

ESA WorldCover

Rural Iowa · Categorical

MTBS Fire sample scene

MTBS Fire

Northern California · Burn severity

COP DEM sample scene

COP DEM

Coastal Miami · Elevation

Daymet Max Temp sample scene

Daymet Max Temp

Texas · Tmax

TerraClimate PET sample scene

TerraClimate PET

California · Reference Evapotranspiration