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Earth-observation instrument catalog from WMO OSCAR/Space

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Return a filtered page of the WMO OSCAR/Space instrument catalog. The catalog covers 1,234 instruments spanning optical imagers, spectrometers, radar altimeters, radar scatterometers, GNSS receivers, radiometers, solar irradiance monitors, and more, each attributed to one or more providing agencies. Filters are applied client-side against Sugra's in-process catalog cache. Pass measures_variable=<variable_slug> to list only instruments that measure a given observation variable. Attribution: WMO OSCAR/Space (World Meteorological Organization).

get/api/v1/environment/oscar-wmo/instruments

Request

  • Base URL: https://sugra.ai
  • URL: https://sugra.ai/api/v1/environment/oscar-wmo/instruments
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

measures_variablestring nullable

Variable slug filter - returns only instruments that measure this variable (e.g. sea_surface_temperature, aerosol_optical_depth). Derived by iterating the variables catalog.

qstring nullable

Case-insensitive substring search across instrument acronym and full name.

limitinteger

Maximum number of records to return (1 to 500).

offsetinteger

Zero-indexed offset into the filtered result list.

Response

Paginated list of instrument records matching the requested filters, with total and filtered counts.

Example response

{
  "meta": {
    "endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
    "data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
    "response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
    "provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
    "data_age_days": 8.532,
    "source": "sugra_crypto",
    "attribution": "Short interest and Reg SHO daily short volume data is owned by and sourced from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).",
    "fallback_chain": [
      "sugra_crypto",
      "sugra_finance"
    ],
    "stale_since": "2026-09-08T12:00:00Z",
    "period": "2026-Q1",
    "notes": "the UKMTO report behind these counts is dated 2026-08-21 and is 11 days old"
  }
}

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