Copernicus Dataspace MCP Server

@pipeworx/copernicus-dataspace

European Sentinel and Copernicus Contributing Mission archive from the EU's Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem — search Sentinel-1/2/3/5P, Copernicus DEM, land-cover and burnt-area products by area and date and get item ids, footprints, dates and product asset paths.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1863+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

• copernicus_dataspace_collections(contains?, prefix?, limit?) — the product collections, with licence, extent and date range. Call this first: search refuses a query that names no collection.
• copernicus_dataspace_collection(collection_id) — one collection in full.
• copernicus_dataspace_search(collections, bbox?, datetime?, ids?, limit?, max_assets?) — which products cover an area on given dates.

Auth

Catalogue search is keyless. Downloading a product is not: asset hrefs are s3://eodata/... object-store paths, and fetching the bytes needs a free Copernicus account plus S3 or OData credentials (register at https://dataspace.copernicus.eu). The ids, dates, footprints and asset inventory returned here are complete and need no account.

Related packs

The sentinel-hub pack is the commercial Sentinel Hub processing API (OAuth client credentials; statistical/NDVI endpoints returning computed values). This pack is the free EU catalogue underneath it — it says which scenes exist; Sentinel Hub renders and analyses them. Neither substitutes for the other.

Data sources

• https://catalogue.dataspace.copernicus.eu/stac — STAC API 1.0. It redirects its own links to https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/v1; both answer.

Shared client: shared/src/stac.ts, also used by planetary-computer, earth-search and meteoswiss.

Traps

• POST /search with no collections answers HTTP 400 CollectionInQuerryIsMissingError (the upstream's own spelling).
• GET /collections pages ten at a time. A single un-paged read looks like a ten-dataset catalogue — a confident wrong answer rather than an error. The shared client follows rel="next".
• Asset hrefs are s3://, not HTTPS. An agent that treats one as a download URL gets nothing and reads it as a broken link.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "copernicus-dataspace": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/copernicus-dataspace/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/copernicus-dataspace/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1863+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/copernicus_dataspace_collections \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"contains":"sentinel-2","limit":5}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/copernicus_dataspace_collections. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Run it from npm

@pipeworx/mcp-copernicus-dataspace is a local stdio bridge to the Pipeworx gateway: your MCP client starts it with npx, and it forwards every call to the same https://gateway.pipeworx.io/copernicus-dataspace/mcp endpoint shown above. It needs network access; there is no offline mode.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "copernicus-dataspace": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-copernicus-dataspace"]
    }
  }
}

Without a key it calls anonymously, capped at 50 calls a day. A free account raises that to 200 a day: get a key at https://pipeworx.io/signup and add "env": { "PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<your key>" } to the server entry. The key is sent as a Bearer token, the same way a hosted connection sends it, so calls are metered and billed exactly as they are there.

It lists only this pack's tools by default. Set PIPEWORX_META_TOOLS=1 to also list ask_pipeworx and the other gateway-wide tools.

Behind an HTTPS proxy: Node's built-in fetch does not read HTTPS_PROXY by default. Newer Node releases honour it when NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 is set; check your Node version's documentation.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Copernicus Dataspace data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT