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Where can I find Sentinel-2 data in AWS?
The archive of Sentinel-2 data at AWS consists of two buckets, one containing L1C and the other containing L2A data. There are multiple ways to search the archive for specific tiles and products: Manual search using aws_cli, e.g.:
What are the parameters of the AWS CLI?
For more information see the AWS CLI version 1 section of About the AWS CLI versions . Some parameters expect file names as arguments, from which the AWS CLI loads the data.
How to download L1C tile data from AWS?
It is possible to download only a specific tile within the product. The tile can be specified with tile name (i.e. tile’s spatial location) and sensing date: By default L1C tile data will be downloaded. In order to download L2A tile data a flag has to be used:
How to download satellite data from AWS command line?
Download product and save it to specific file directory: Download specified bands only: It is possible to download only a specific tile within the product. The tile can be specified with tile name (i.e. tile’s spatial location) and sensing date: By default L1C tile data will be downloaded.
Why do I need Python to download Sentinel data?
Well, it depends on your application, but generally speaking it allows you a higher degree of automatisation of your program/code because you won’t be forced to log in to a data providers website / portal (for example: scihub.copernicus.eu) anymore and look for images manually.
Where can I find documentation of Sentinel Hub Python package?
Documentation for Python utility packages developed by the EO research team at Sinergise. This code allows one to reproduce some of the functionalities of the EO service Sentinel Hub . The code is available on GitHub. 1. Create a batch request 2. Analyse a batch request
How does boto3 work with AWS and Python?
Boto3 makes it easy to integrate your Python application, library, or script with AWS services including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon DynamoDB, and more. Boto3 has two distinct levels of APIs. Client (or “low-level”) APIs provide one-to-one mappings to the underlying HTTP API operations.
What is the purpose of the Sentinel 2 satellite?
The Sentinel-2 mission is a land monitoring constellation of two satellites that provide high resolution optical imagery and provide continuity for the current SPOT and Landsat missions. The mission provides a global coverage of the Earth’s land surface every 5 days, making the data of great use in on-going studies.
Is the Sentinel-2 registry of open data free?
Access to Sentinel data is free, full and open for the broad Regional, National, European and International user community. View Terms and Conditions. Documentation is available for Sentinel-2 L1C and Sentinel-2 L2A. See all datasets managed by Sinergise.
How to access AWS S3 storage buckets?
This example notebook shows how to obtain Sentinel-2 imagery and additional data from AWS S3 storage buckets. The data at AWS is the same as original S-2 data provided by ESA. The sentinelhub package supports obtaining data by specifying products or by specifying tiles.