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+{
+  "type": "Feature",
+  "stac_version": "1.0.0",
+  "id": "test_item_dont_merge",
+  "properties": {
+    "keywords": [
+      "Gray"
+    ],
+    "license": "proprietary",
+    "description": "testing items",
+    "providers": [],
+    "dataSource": "edits",
+    "cube:dimensions": {
+      "x": {
+        "axis": "x",
+        "extent": [
+          -180,
+          180
+        ],
+        "reference_system": 4326,
+        "type": "spatial"
+      },
+      "y": {
+        "axis": "y",
+        "extent": [
+          0,
+          90
+        ],
+        "reference_system": 4326,
+        "type": "spatial"
+      },
+      "z": {
+        "extent": [
+          null,
+          null
+        ],
+        "type": "spatial"
+      }
+    },
+    "raster:bands": [
+      {
+        "band_name": "Gray",
+        "data_type": "int8",
+        "definition": "f",
+        "description": "test editing"
+      }
+    ],
+    "title": "test item",
+    "datasource_type": "grid",
+    "datetime": "2024-08-19T16:29:57Z",
+    "modification": null,
+    "provision": null,
+    "platform": "Eox"
+  },
+  "geometry": {
+    "type": "Polygon",
+    "coordinates": [
+      [
+        [
+          -180,
+          0
+        ],
+        [
+          -180,
+          90
+        ],
+        [
+          180,
+          90
+        ],
+        [
+          180,
+          0
+        ],
+        [
+          -180,
+          0
+        ]
+      ]
+    ]
+  },
+  "links": [
+    {
+      "rel": "root",
+      "href": "../catalog.json",
+      "type": "application/json",
+      "title": "data-access catalog"
+    },
+    {
+      "rel": "parent",
+      "href": "../catalog.json",
+      "type": "application/json",
+      "title": "data-access catalog"
+    },
+    {
+      "example:container": false,
+      "example:language": "Python",
+      "type": "text/x-python",
+      "title": "the code to subset",
+      "description": "sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfdsf",
+      "href": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FAIRiCUBE/Processes/refs/heads/main/ERA5_monthly_averaged_data/script.py",
+      "rel": "example"
+    },
+    {
+      "example:container": true,
+      "example:language": "HTML",
+      "type": "text/html",
+      "title": "how to subset a tiff",
+      "description": "sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfdsf",
+      "href": "https://www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/docs/READ_TIFF.html",
+      "rel": "example"
+    },
+    {
+      "example:container": true,
+      "title": "overview_1",
+      "description": "Link to the data visualization interactive web map.",
+      "href": "https://vis.fairicube.eu/=data?https://data.sustainability.nilu.no/fairicube/r05_treecover2018_100m_b1_COG.tif",
+      "rel": "example"
+    },
+    {
+      "href": "https://www.google.com",
+      "rel": "license",
+      "type": "text/xml",
+      "title": "Link to the item's license."
+    }
+  ],
+  "assets": {
+    "metadata_1": {
+      "href": "https://www.x.com",
+      "roles": [
+        "metadata"
+      ]
+    },
+    "overview_1": {
+      "href": "https://data.sustainability.nilu.no/fairicube/r05_treecover2018_100m_b1_COG.tif",
+      "roles": [
+        "overview"
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "bbox": [
+    -180,
+    0,
+    180,
+    90
+  ],
+  "stac_extensions": [
+    "https://stac-extensions.github.io/raster/v1.1.0/schema.json",
+    "https://stac-extensions.github.io/datacube/v2.0.0/schema.json",
+    "https://stac-extensions.github.io/example-links/v0.0.1/schema.json"
+  ]
+}
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