Abyssal Claims API
A REST API over the same datasets the map renders: ISA mining concessions and contractors, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, biodiversity occurrences, ocean chemistry fields, and land mining layers.
Access
Requests authenticate with an X-API-Key header. Keys are issued to
approved organisations, which then mint keys for their own members; there is no
self-signup. Responses are GeoJSON in EPSG:4326, with vector tiles for the layers
that are too large to serve whole.
Machine-readable schema
The full OpenAPI document is public and generated from the live routes, so it cannot drift from the running service: openapi.json.
Every dataset carries its upstream source, licence and citation. Attribution requirements travel with the data — see how to cite.