ESA MAAP Catalog, Explorer and PAL new versions installation
The ESA MAAP Catalog has been updated to correct the STAC published date retrieval by using the appropriate OGC metadata field, while enhancements to the S3 Event Listener have improved ingestion performance and Kubernetes deployment optimizations have increased platform stability, addressing the timeout issues recently experienced within the MAAP system.
The user simultaneous request to the Catalog has been increased to 1000 per minutes.
The ESA MAAP Explorer platform has been enhanced with support for Time Preferences filtering in Multi-Discovery, browsing of Landsat collections in both Standard Explorer and Multi-Discovery, and improved alignment between the results returned by the two discovery interfaces, providing a more consistent and effective user experience.
The Product Algorithm Laboratory platform has been enhanced to improve job execution reliability and eliminate timeout-related failures, provide greater visibility of processor service information, optimize job quota management by excluding parent jobs from runnable job limits, ensure processing state consistency through periodic verification of pod status, and automatically retrieve and expose the latest ESA MAAP user token for streamlined processing workflows.
ESA MAAP Catalog and Explorer new version installation on 10/06/2026
ESA MAAP Catalog:
- Federation of LANDSAT remote catalog​
- CDSE interface replacement​
- Enhancement of WMTS/WMS capabilities offering​
- Enhancing metadata indexing​​
Explorer:
- Visualisation service enhancement
- Sort filter enhancement
- Addition of Coordinate-Based AOI Input Panel
- Multi discovery Mode
- STAC Browser Mode​
- Enable incremental autocomplete for Title and Query filter in collection search​
- WMS WebMap Link enhancement
News Subscription link added to ESA MAAP Portal
The News Subscription link has been added to the ESA MAAP Portal,
enabling users to stay informed and up to date with the latest platform news and updates.
ESA MAAP Components new version installation on 12/02/2026
- Catalog:
1) Queryables names changed ensuring alignment with the STAC API specification (refer to Changes to the queryable names into a near-future version of the ESA MAAP Catalog – ESA MAAP Portal)
2) The Catalogue supports searching/filtering for “offerings” queryable for the remote collection (e.g: EOCAT collections) (https://catalog.maap.eo.esa.int/doc/stac.html#additional-search-parameters). - Explorer:
1) Color Legend for active WMS Layer
2) Bulk Product Selection & Download - PAL:
1) BPS command line implementation
2) Perception, collections discovery improvement in Visualisation & Analytics
ESA MAAP Components new version installation on 14/01/2026
- Catalog: Added sorting capabilities for search results via the STAC interface (https://catalog.maap.eo.esa.int/doc/stac.html#sorting-results).
- Explorer: Enhanced Catalog integration and minor performance optimizations.
- PAL: Introduced systematic processing on Intellect, enabled Podman support in Experiments, and improved the user experience regarding cloud resource monitoring (https://portal.maap.eo.esa.int/ini/kb/books/collaborative-environment-pal/page/general-aspects).

