User Accounts
User accounts are employed to enable access to restricted data, manage privileges, and/or to interact with other services and tools provided by the CMR. User accounts for the CMR system are created and managed by the Earthdata Login (URS) system. If you need to create an account, click on Earthdata Login and follow the instructions provided. Once created, you can always return to Earthdata Login to manage your account. If you are part of a Data Provider group or other team, the team administrator can set up permissions for you to access their restricted data. Special privilege requests can be made by contacting the CMR operational team at support@earthdata.nasa.gov.
Creating and Managing CMR Sessions
Tokens are used by the CMR to validate both the requester and their privileges for each request message (i.e., the http call to CMR) submitted. For most searches, a token is not needed because the metadata records are unrestricted and accessible by anyone. However, when specific metadata records are restricted, privileged users require a token to see and access those records.
The same token can be used for multiple requests before being deleted. A series of requests that use the same token is referred to as a "session." All tokens expire at the end of a predefined time period - which is currently fixed at 30 days. Because the token is used to track your session, it must be protected by client applications with the same level of security used for your login name and password.
A normal session is conducted via the following steps:
User accounts are employed to enable access to restricted data, manage privileges, and/or to interact with other services and tools provided by the CMR. User accounts for the CMR system are created and managed by the Earthdata Login (URS) system. If you need to create an account, click on Earthdata Login and follow the instructions provided. Once created, you can always return to Earthdata Login to manage your account. If you are part of a Data Provider group or other team, the team administrator can set up permissions for you to access their restricted data. Special privilege requests can be made by contacting the CMR operational team at support@earthdata.nasa.gov.
Creating and Managing CMR Sessions
Tokens are used by the CMR to validate both the requester and their privileges for each request message (i.e., the http call to CMR) submitted. For most searches, a token is not needed because the metadata records are unrestricted and accessible by anyone. However, when specific metadata records are restricted, privileged users require a token to see and access those records.
The same token can be used for multiple requests before being deleted. A series of requests that use the same token is referred to as a "session." All tokens expire at the end of a predefined time period - which is currently fixed at 30 days. Because the token is used to track your session, it must be protected by client applications with the same level of security used for your login name and password.
A normal session is conducted via the following steps:
- Create a token
- Perform one or both of the following tasks in any order:
- Search for records
- Retrieve records
- Delete the token
Statistics: Posted by Earthdata - wxedward — Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:06 am America/New_York