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+{
+  "collection": "nldas2",
+  "title": "DEMO - NLDAS-2 Precipitation Forcing Dataset",
+  "description": "NLDAS-2 provides a fine-scale (1 km) meteorological forcing (precipitation) in both retrospective and near real-time over North and Central America, including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, by leveraging high-quality gauge, satellite, and model datasets through advanced data assimilation methods. Read more: https://ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov/nldas/v2",
+  "license": "CC0-1.0",
+  "stac_version": "1.0.0",
+  "dashboard:is_periodic": true,
+  "dashboard:time_density": "month",
+  "spatial_extent": {
+    "xmin": -168.98000671647551,
+    "ymin": 8.019999961559591,
+    "xmax": -51.93999145246978,
+    "ymax": 72.06000091582078
+  },
+  "temporal_extent": {
+    "startdate": "2003-01-01T00:00:00Z",
+    "enddate": "2021-12-31T00:00:00Z"
+  },
+  "discovery_items": [
+    {
+      "discovery": "s3",
+      "prefix": "EIS/nldas2monthly/",
+      "bucket": "veda-data-store-staging",
+      "filename_regex": ".*_\\d{6}.tif$",
+      "datetime_range": "month",
+      "use_multithreading": false
+    }
+  ],
+  "sample_files": [
+    "s3://veda-data-store-staging/EIS/nldas2monthly/nldas2_LIS_HIST_200301.tif"
+  ],
+  "data_type": "cog",
+  "stac_extensions": [
+    "https://stac-extensions.github.io/render/v1.0.0/schema.json",
+    "https://stac-extensions.github.io/item-assets/v1.0.0/schema.json"
+  ],
+  "item_assets": {
+    "cog_default": {
+      "type": "image/tiff; application=geotiff; profile=cloud-optimized",
+      "roles": [
+        "data",
+        "layer"
+      ],
+      "title": "Default COG Layer",
+      "description": "Cloud optimized default layer to display on map"
+    }
+  },
+  "renders": {
+    "dashboard": {
+      "bidx": [
+        1
+      ],
+      "rescale": [
+        [
+          0,
+          200
+        ]
+      ],
+      "colormap_name": "magma",
+      "assets": [
+        "cog_default"
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "providers": [
+    {
+      "name": "NLDAS",
+      "roles": [
+        "producer",
+        "processor",
+        "licensor"
+      ],
+      "url": "https://ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov/nldas"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "NASA VEDA",
+      "roles": [
+        "host"
+      ],
+      "url": "https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/dashboard/"
+    }
+  ],
+  "assets": {
+    "thumbnail": {
+      "title": "Thumbnail",
+      "description": "Photo by [LDAS-NASA](https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/151000/151897/mississippi_oli_2023259_lrg.jpg) (Landsat 8 — OLI image of the Mississippi River below Memphis, Tennessee on September 16, 2023 at near record low water levels, limiting barge shipments, threatening drinking water supplies, agriculture, and ecosystems.)",
+      "href": "https://thumbnails.openveda.cloud/nldas-cover.png",
+      "type": "image/jpeg",
+      "roles": [
+        "thumbnail"
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "eic:tenant": "water-insight"
+}
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