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Explore capabilities (19)
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Search Catalog
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search_catalog
Search Umbra's catalog and return compact context cards.
Filters (all optional, combine freely): ``bbox`` as
``[min_lon, min_lat, max_lon, max_lat]`` in WGS84 degrees; ``intersects`` as
a GeoJSON polygon object (a ``Polygon`` / ``MultiPolygon`` geometry, or a
``Feature`` / ``FeatureCollection`` wrapping one) to keep only footprints
intersecting it -- a tighter spatial filter than the rectangular ``bbox``,
and mutually exclusive with ``bbox`` / ``place``; ``place`` as a
Search Catalog — Search Umbra's catalog and return compact context cards.
Filters (all optional, combine freely): ``bbox`` as
``[min_lon, min_lat, max_lon, max_lat]`` in WGS84 degrees; ``intersects`` as
a GeoJSON polygon object (a ``Polygon`` / ``MultiPolygon`` geometry, or a
``Feature`` / ``FeatureCollection`` wrapping one) to keep only footprints
intersecting it -- a tighter spatial filter than the rectangular ``bbox``,
and mutually exclusive with ``bbox`` / ``place``; ``place`` as a
Find Repeat Sites — Rank the archive's most repeat-imaged sites — where change detection has
something to measure.
The discovery step *before* every analysis verb. ``change`` / ``timescan`` /
``stack`` / ``pick_change_interval`` / ``narrate_change`` all answer *what*
changed at a site, but each assumes the caller already knows *which* site to
point them at. Umbra files every pass of an area under one task (site), so a
site's coverage is just how many dated passes share its task; the sites w
Get Item — Return the full context card for one item.
Without a Canopy token configured, ``url`` is the JSON URL of an open-data
STAC sidecar. When a local catalog index contains that href, the indexed
snapshot is returned — the same document ``search_catalog`` already
answered from — rather than a live re-fetch that can disagree on asset
filenames or product types. When the server is configured with a token
(``$UMBRA_CANOPY_TOKEN``) and ``url`` is a bare acquisition id (no ``://``
Geocode Place — Resolve a free-text place name to a bounding box via Nominatim.
Returns ``{"bbox": [min_lon, min_lat, max_lon, max_lat], "display_name":
...}`` so the agent can inspect the box before searching, or pass it
straight to ``search_catalog``'s ``bbox``.
Index Stats — Report on the local catalog index, if one has been built or fetched.
Lets a long-running agent decide whether searches will be instant (index
present) or pay a live S3 walk, and how stale the snapshot is.
Quicklook — Return a scene's quicklook PNG as an image block.
Prefers a baked catalog preview (``preview="auto"``, the default) so a
public host can show the radar scene without proxying Umbra COGs.
**A baked preview is typically 512 px** (the published weekly sidecar).
``max_size`` applies only to a fresh ``preview="render"`` stream; when a
cached thumbnail is smaller than requested, the caption says
``max_size`` was ignored *and* includes a JSON
``{"image": {source, width, hei
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Change Composite — Composite 2-3 passes of one site into a change image.
Pass the STAC URLs of two or three acquisitions of the *same* site in time
order. Colors encode change: bright green = signal appeared after the first
date, magenta = signal vanished, grey = unchanged. Refuses to mix
polarizations (HH vs VV are not comparable). Returns the image block plus a
caption naming the color semantics and attribution -- and, when a pass carries
no polarization metadata so same-polarization cou
Timescan — Summarize a whole time series into one activity image.
Pass the STAC URLs of a site's passes; the timescan encodes per-pixel
temporal statistics so bright/colored areas are *where activity happened*
over the series. Returns the image block plus attribution.
Stack Stats — Measure how much a site changed across its passes, as numbers.
The quantitative counterpart to ``change_composite`` / ``timescan``: those
return a picture of *where* change is, this returns the *how much*. Pass the
STAC URLs of a site's passes (2 or more, any order); they are co-registered
onto one shared grid and reduced to a per-pass statistics series plus a net
baseline-to-latest record — mean/median/spread of each pass, the signed
decibel change against the pass befo
Stack Provenance — Check whether a site's passes are one measurement, before measuring them.
``stack_stats`` refuses a selection whose rasters were made by *different*
``umbra convert`` settings — a calibrated pass differenced against an
uncalibrated one puts the difference between two conversions on the time
axis and reports it as change on the ground. This is the question that
refusal answers, asked ahead of it: it reads each acquisition's ``UMBRA_*``
conversion record straight from its
Pick Change Interval — Scan a site's whole series and name the two passes worth narrating.
The deterministic first half of the "watch a site over time" story, and the
step that turns a wall of passes into an answer. Given the STAC URLs of a
site's passes (2 or more, any order), it co-registers them into a
``to_stack`` cube, reduces it with ``stack_stats``, and returns the *one*
consecutive pass-pair whose measured change stands **furthest clear of the
speckle detection floor** — the pair a rea
Download Asset — Download one asset of an item to local disk, gated by a size check.
SAR products can be multiple GB, so this is a two-step handshake: call it
first with ``confirm=False`` (the default) to get the byte size without
downloading, then again with ``confirm=True`` to actually fetch. Returns
``{asset, path, bytes}`` on download, or a size-and-hint object when
confirmation is still required.
Watch Site — Report only the acquisitions **new** since the last check of this site.
SAR's value for monitoring is its cadence, so the natural workflow is
*standing*: run the same search each time and act only on what changed. This
tool packages that idempotent delta — call it in one turn, come back a day
(or a session) later and call it again, and it returns just the passes
published in between, not the whole list again. The scheduler is you: ask the
agent to check the site, and it
Find Similar — Find archived scenes that **look like** the acquisition at ``url``.
This is the one search that lives in the pixels, not the metadata: where
``search_catalog`` filters by date/bbox/task-name, this renders the query
item's quicklook, embeds it, and ranks the pre-embedded scene index by visual
(cosine) similarity — "find scenes that look like this flooded field / crowded
berth / runway". The query item is excluded from its own results.
Requires a scene-embedding index bui
Find Similar Text — Find archived scenes matching a plain-language ``query`` over their imagery.
Text-to-scene search: embeds ``query`` ("ships at a berth", "a flooded field")
and ranks the stored *image* vectors by cosine similarity. It only works when
the index was built and this query is embedded with the **same** joint
CLIP-family model whose text and image encoders share a vector space (a
dimension mismatch is reported as an error; ``model`` selects it).
Requires the same prebuilt ``c
Describe Scene — Return a SAR-literate reading of the scene at ``url``.
The picture and the metadata card are produced deterministically; a model
only interprets them. How that model is reached depends on whether this
process holds a vision key:
- **No key** (the public community host): this tool does **not** call a
vision model. It returns the PNG plus a reading kit (SAR rules, the
metadata card, the JSON schema). Produce the JSON, then call
:func:`stamp_description` — that i
Narrate Change — Return a grounded reading of *what changed* between passes.
Sibling of :func:`describe_scene`. The composite and the per-block dB grid
are produced deterministically; a model only narrates change those numbers
support. Pass the STAC URLs in time order; mixed polarizations are refused.
This tool **streams Umbra COGs** to build the composite, so a public
community host refuses it (use a local ``uvx --from 'umbra-py[mcp]'
umbra-mcp`` server, or describe each pass with :fun
Stamp Description — Validate a client-produced scene reading and stamp provenance.
This is the interpretation boundary for the no-key kit path: you read the
picture ``describe_scene`` returned, produce
``{summary, observed_features, confidence, caveats}``, and pass it here.
The library checks the shape, stamps CC-BY and the AI-interpretation
note (the model never sets those), and — when ``image`` is the record
from the kit — appends a deterministic caveat if the picture was a
smaller ba
Stamp Narration — Validate a client-produced change narration and stamp provenance.
Sibling of :func:`stamp_description` for the no-key ``narrate_change``
kit. Pass the JSON you produced plus the ``change_stats`` grid from the
kit so the stamped object carries the numbers the prose was grounded in.
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