qgis-vantor-plugin

A QGIS plugin for searching, visualizing, and downloading data from the Vantor Open Data STAC catalog.

Features

• Browse disaster event collections from the Vantor STAC catalog
• Search imagery by map extent or drawn bounding box
• Filter by event and pre/post-event phase
• Visualize Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) imagery directly in QGIS
• Download selected imagery to disk
• Interactive footprint display with bidirectional table/map selection
• One-click dependency installer using uv for fast cross-platform package management

Installation

From QGIS Plugin Repository

1. Open QGIS Plugin Manager and search for "Vantor"
2. Click Install to install the plugin

From Source

git clone https://github.com/opengeos/qgis-vantor-plugin.git
cd qgis-vantor-plugin
python install.py

Then restart QGIS and enable the Vantor plugin in Plugins > Manage and Install Plugins.

First Run

1. Open the Settings panel from the Vantor toolbar
2. Go to the Dependencies tab
3. Click Install Dependencies to install pystac
4. Restart QGIS

Usage

1. Open the Vantor Panel from the toolbar
2. Select an event from the dropdown (events are fetched live from the catalog)
3. Optionally filter by phase (Pre-event / Post-event) and spatial extent
4. Click Search to fetch items and display footprints on the map
5. Click on a table row to highlight the footprint on the map (and vice versa)
6. Check items and click Visualize to stream COG imagery or Download to save to disk

Packaging

python package_plugin.py

This creates a vantor-{version}.zip file ready for upload to the QGIS plugin repository.

License

MIT