Voyager Simplifying STAC Implementation and Enhancing Data Value
Voyager Search is a leader in advanced information retrieval and metadata management, specializing in solutions that significantly enhance the discoverability, usability, and management of spatial-temporal data. As a proud member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Voyager Search actively contributes to the advancement of geospatial standards and practices.
Our platform excels in transforming complex data environments into streamlined, standardized catalogs compliant with industry-leading standards, including the OGC's Spatial Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC).
How Voyager Works
At the heart of Voyager's capabilities lies a powerful connector and metadata enrichment framework that supports over 2,000 data formats, enabling seamless information retrieval from diverse sources without compatibility constraints. This comprehensive approach ensures organizations can maximize their data assets while enhancing operational efficiency across the following key capabilities:
Data Connectors: Voyager seamlessly connects to diverse data sources and services, including existing STAC-compliant web services.
Enrichment and Conditioning Pipeline: After connecting, our platform enriches and conditions data, generating robust metadata through automated processes, including AI-driven generative metadata capabilities.
Unified Catalog: All enriched data and metadata are integrated into a unified, searchable catalog, allowing users to query and analyze data from multiple disparate sources through a single, intuitive interface.
Our STAC-Compliant Solutions
Voyager Search delivers two primary STAC-related solutions:
STAC Consumer: Voyager's connectors directly consume STAC-compliant web services, enriching and conditioning records to create a detailed and robust metadata layer. Unlike typical STAC implementations limited to basic bounding box and temporal queries, Voyager's comprehensive catalog supports advanced and complex queries—including keyword searches, spatial relationships, attribute-driven filtering, and customized analytic criteria—delivering deeper insights and more precise data discovery across diverse datasets
STAC Server: Voyager also acts as a powerful STAC server, capable of transforming any indexed content into a fully compliant STAC service. Our solution quickly exposes data via a root catalog serving as the gateway to unlimited sub-catalogs, collections, and individual items. Voyager’s enrichment and metadata pipelines greatly simplify the traditionally complex and time-consuming tasks of data classification, labeling, and cataloging.
Key Value
Rapid STAC Implementation: Quickly stand up STAC-compliant services without extensive manual effort.
Enhanced Metadata Quality: Voyager automatically improves metadata quality, ensuring robust, ISO-compliant descriptions for your data.
Unified Data Access: Simplify access by integrating diverse and siloed data sources into a single, STAC complaint service. Accessible through a range of user-friendly interfaces.
AI-Enhanced Enrichment: Leverage generative metadata technologies to automatically classify, tag, and enrich content, significantly reducing manual workload.
Proven Leadership and Collaboration
Voyager Search has led multiple OGC-sponsored emergency response pilots and has demonstrated its advanced geospatial capabilities in collaboration with prominent organizations, including the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Esri. These engagements underscore our platform's reliability, interoperability, and effectiveness in critical situations.
An Often Overlooked but Valuable Benefit
Voyager Search excels in taking existing catalogs—often riddled with incomplete, poor-quality, non-compliant metadata, or in some cases non-conformant STAC implementations —and dramatically improving their quality and compliance. By ingesting these sub-standard records through our pipeline, Voyager systematically cleans and enriches the data, re-exposing it as fully compliant, ISO-standard metadata. This capability not only ensures adherence to industry standards but significantly enhances the utility and discoverability of the data.
In essence, Voyager Search empowers organizations to effortlessly achieve STAC compliance, dramatically improve their metadata quality, and enhance data accessibility and usability across their entire organization.
For more information contact your Voyager account rep or info@voyagersearch.com