awesome Sentinel

A curated list of awesome tools, tutorials and APIs related to data from the Copernicus Sentinel Satellites.

Data Access

Data Hubs and National Mirrors

Official datahubs and mirrors by the Copernicus partners and Collaborative Ground Segment members.

• Copernicus Sentinels Scientific Datahub (SciHub)
• Australia National Mirror
• Austria National Mirror
• Finnish National Mirror
• French National Mirror (PEPS)
• German National Mirror (CODE-DE)
• Greek National Mirror
• Italian National Mirror
• UK National Mirror (SEDAS)

Partial Mirrors

Innitiatives to integrate specific Sentinel data into existing search and discovery platforms.

• Alaska Satellite Facility (Sentinel-1)
• Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - CEDA (Sentinel-1, -2)
• Theia (Sentinel-2) tiles covering France only, athmospherically corrected L2A
• USGS EarthExplorer (Sentinel-2)

Cloud providers

Providers that host Copernicus Sentinel data and allow you to bring your own code to process it.

• Amazon Web Services (Sentinel-2)
  • public S3 bucket, Sentinel-2 only, hosted in region eu-central-1 (Frankfurt)
• Google (Sentinel-2)
  • public Google Cloud Storage bucket, .SAFE format, EU region

Tools

Specific to Copernicus Sentinel data discovery, download and processing.

search & download

• sentinelsat
  • search and download from any Datahub. Comes with an intuitive command line and a flexible Python API.
• Sentinel-download
  • download Sentinel-2 data from Copernicus SciHub. Supports download of sub-tiles in the old product format (PDS <14).
• peps_download
  • download data from the French National Mirror (PEPS).
• Sentinel2ProductIngestor
  • ingest Sentinel-2 data from SciHub into S3. Used by Sinergise to populate the AWS Sentinel-2 mirror
• sat-download
  • download Sentinel-2 data from AWS
• sat-api
  • query Sentinel-2 data on AWS using APIGateWay
  • deployed by Development Seed at https://api.developmentseed.org/satellites

viewers & browsers

• AWS/Sinergise "Sentinel Image Browser"
  • search Sentinel-2 data available on Amazon Webservices
• RemotePixel "Satellite Search"
  • open source viewer for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 data hosted by AWS
  • uses sat-api
• Sinergise "Sentinel Playground"
  • visualize AWS Sentinel-2 data in different band combinations ando offers a WMS/WMTS service.
• EOSDA "Land Viewer"
  • viewer for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 data hosted by AWS
• jeobrowser "Rocket"
  • viewer for Sentinel (1,2,3), Landsat-8, SPOT and Pleiades imagery
  • based on resto search engine and used as frontend for PEPS

processing

• SNAP (Sentinel Application Plattform)
  • (pre-)process any Sentinel data
  • also available as docker
• Sen2Cor
  • athmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 data
  • also available as python package
• Google Earth Engine
  • process the global Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 archives directly on Google's servers