HLS data access issue: '.tif not recognized as being a supported file format'

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HLS data access issue: '.tif not recognized as being a supported file format'

by immerse8083 » Sun Jul 20, 2025 2:50 pm America/New_York

Hello! I am running into an issue accessing HLS data using the code below. This same code has run reliably for months, but recently I've started get this error message:

RuntimeError: Error opening 'https://data.lpdaac.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/lp-prod-protected/HLSL30.020/HLS.L30.T18TWL.2017099T153859.v2.0/HLS.L30.T18TWL.2017099T153859.v2.0.Fmask.tif': RasterioIOError("'/vsicurl/https://data.lpdaac.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/lp-prod-protected/HLSL30.020/HLS.L30.T18TWL.2017099T153859.v2.0/HLS.L30.T18TWL.2017099T153859.v2.0.Fmask.tif' not recognized as being in a supported file format.")


My access token is up to date. Do you have any insight into what might be causing this?


###### Relevant parts of my code #######

gdal.SetConfigOption('GDAL_HTTP_COOKIEFILE','~/cookies.txt')
gdal.SetConfigOption('GDAL_HTTP_COOKIEJAR', '~/cookies.txt')
gdal.SetConfigOption('GDAL_DISABLE_READDIR_ON_OPEN','EMPTY_DIR')
gdal.SetConfigOption('GDAL_HTTP_UNSAFESSL', 'YES')
gdal.SetConfigOption('GDAL_HTTP_MAX_RETRY', '10')
gdal.SetConfigOption('GDAL_HTTP_RETRY_DELAY', '0.5')
gdal.SetConfigOption('CPL_VSIL_CURL_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS','.tif,.tiff')

import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy='netrc', persist=True)

catalog = Client.open("https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/stac/LPCLOUD")


query_results = catalog.search(
bbox=self.site.bbox_4326,
collections=["HLSL30.v2.0","HLSS30.v2.0"],
datetime=f"{self.year}-04-01/{self.year}-11-30"
).item_collection()

.....

x = stackstac.stack(
query_results,
epsg=self.epsg,
resolution=30,
bounds=self.site.bbox_utm,
assets=bands).where(lambda x: x > 0, other=np.nan)

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Re: HLS data access issue: '.tif not recognized as being a supported file format'

by LP DAAC - dgolon » Mon Jul 21, 2025 5:14 pm America/New_York

Hello @immerse8083 We are looking into this and will post an answer when we have more details. Thanks -- Danielle
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Re: HLS data access issue: '.tif not recognized as being a supported file format'

by immerse8083 » Mon Jul 21, 2025 5:22 pm America/New_York

Thank you! Just to let you know, I was able to resolve the problem. It turned out I had accidentally added an extra new line in my netrc file, probably from copy and pasting in a new password. It seems this is somewhat commonly the cause of the 'tif not recognized at a supported file format' error, based on this github discussion:

https://github.com/rasterio/rasterio/issues/2152

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Re: HLS data access issue: '.tif not recognized as being a supported file format'

by LP DAAC - lien » Tue Jul 22, 2025 7:42 am America/New_York

Hello immerse8083,
Thank you for the update, we will close the ticket then. Let us know if you have any further issues. Thanks,
Brett

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