sentinelsat

Sentinelsat makes searching, downloading and retrieving the metadata of Sentinel satellite images from the Copernicus Open Access Hub easy.

It offers an easy-to-use command line interface

sentinelsat -u <user> -p <password> --location Berlin --sentinel 2 --cloud 30 --start NOW-1MONTH

and a powerful Python API.

from sentinelsat import SentinelAPI, read_geojson, geojson_to_wkt

api = SentinelAPI('user', 'password')
footprint = geojson_to_wkt(read_geojson('search_polygon.geojson'))
products = api.query(footprint,
                     producttype='SLC',
                     orbitdirection='ASCENDING',
                     limit=10)
api.download_all(products)

Documentation is published at http://sentinelsat.readthedocs.io/.

Installation

Install sentinelsat through pip:

pip install sentinelsat

Usage

Sentinelsat provides a Python API and a command line interface to search, download and retrieve the metadata for Sentinel products.

Python Library

from sentinelsat import SentinelAPI, read_geojson, geojson_to_wkt
from datetime import date

# connect to the API
api = SentinelAPI('user', 'password', 'https://apihub.copernicus.eu/apihub')

# download single scene by known product id
api.download(<product_id>)

# search by polygon, time, and Hub query keywords
footprint = geojson_to_wkt(read_geojson('map.geojson'))
products = api.query(footprint,
                     date = ('20151219', date(2015, 12, 29)),
                     platformname = 'Sentinel-2',
                     cloudcoverpercentage = (0, 30))

# download all results from the search
api.download_all(products)

# GeoJSON FeatureCollection containing footprints and metadata of the scenes
api.to_geojson(products)

# GeoPandas GeoDataFrame with the metadata of the scenes and the footprints as geometries
api.to_geodataframe(products)

# Get basic information about the product: its title, file size, MD5 sum, date, footprint and
# its download url
api.get_product_odata(<product_id>)

# Get the product's full metadata available on the server
api.get_product_odata(<product_id>, full=True)

Valid search query keywords can be found at the Copernicus Open Access Hub documentation.

Command Line Interface

A basic search query consists of a search area geometry as well as the username and password to access the Copernicus Open Access Hub.

sentinelsat -u <user> -p <password> -g <geojson>

Search areas are provided as GeoJSON files, which can be created with QGIS or geojson.io. If you do not specify a start and end date only products published in the last 24 hours will be queried.

Example

Search and download all Sentinel-1 scenes of type SLC, in descending orbit, for the year 2015.

sentinelsat -u <user> -p <password> -g <search_polygon.geojson> -s 20150101 -e 20151231 -d \
--producttype SLC -q "orbitdirection=Descending" \
--url "https://apihub.copernicus.eu/apihub"

Username, password and DHuS URL can also be set via environment variables for convenience.

# same result as query above
export DHUS_USER="<user>"
export DHUS_PASSWORD="<password>"
export DHUS_URL="https://apihub.copernicus.eu/apihub"

sentinelsat -g <search_polygon.geojson> -s 20150101 -e 20151231 -d \
--producttype SLC -q "orbitdirection=Descending"

Options

-u	--user	TEXT	Username [required] (or environment variable DHUS_USER)
-p	--password	TEXT	Password [required] (or environment variable DHUS_PASSWORD)
	--url	TEXT	Define another API URL. Default URL is 'https://apihub.copernicus.eu/apihub/'.
-s	--start	TEXT	Start date of the query in the format YYYYMMDD or an expression like NOW-1DAY.
-e	--end	TEXT	End date of the query.
-g	--geometry	PATH	Search area geometry as GeoJSON file.
	--uuid	TEXT	Select a specific product UUID. Can be set more than once.
	--name	TEXT	Select specific product(s) by filename. Supports wildcards. Can be set more than once.
	--sentinel	INT	Limit search to a Sentinel satellite (constellation).
	--instrument	TEXT	Limit search to a specific instrument on a Sentinel satellite.
	--producttype	TEXT	Limit search to a Sentinel product type.
-c	--cloud	INT	Maximum cloud cover in percent. (requires --sentinel to be 2 or 3)
-o	--order-by	TEXT	Comma-separated list of keywords to order the result by. Prefix '-' for descending order.
-l	--limit	INT	Maximum number of results to return. Defaults to no limit.
-d	--download		Download all results of the query.
	--fail-fast		Skip all other other downloads if one fails.
	--path	PATH	Set the path where the files will be saved.
-q	--query	TEXT	Extra search keywords you want to use in the query. Example: '-q producttype=GRD -q polarisationmode=HH'. Repeated keywords are interpreted as an "or" expression.
-f	--footprints	FILENAME	Create a GeoJSON file at the provided path with footprints and metadata of the returned products. Set to '-' for stdout.
	--include-pattern	TEXT	Glob pattern to filter files (within each product) to be downloaded.
	--exclude-pattern	TEXT	Glob pattern to filter files (within each product) to be excluded from the downloaded.
	--timeout	FLOAT	How long to wait for a DataHub response (in seconds, default 60 sec).
	--gnss		Query orbit products form the GNSS end-point ("https://scihub.copernicus.eu/gnss").
	--fmt	TEXT	Specify a custom format to print results. The format string shall be compatible with the Python "Format Specification Mini-Language".
	--info		Display DHuS server information.
	--version		Show version number and exit.
	--debug		Print debug log messages.
-h	--help		Show help message and exit.

Tests

To run the tests on sentinelsat:

git clone https://github.com/sentinelsat/sentinelsat.git
cd sentinelsat
pip install -e .[dev]
pytest -v

By default, prerecorded responses to Copernicus Open Access Hub queries are used to not be affected by its downtime. To allow the tests to run actual queries against the Copernicus Open Access Hub set the environment variables

export DHUS_USER=<username>
export DHUS_PASSWORD=<password>

and add --disable-vcr to pytest arguments. To update the recordings use --vcr-record with once, new_episodes or all. See vcrpy docs for details.

Documentation

To build the documentation:

git clone https://github.com/sentinelsat/sentinelsat.git
cd sentinelsat
pip install -e .[dev]
cd docs
make html

The full documentation is also published at http://sentinelsat.readthedocs.io/.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG. You can also use GitHub's compare view to see the changes in the main branch since last release.

Contributors

We invite anyone to participate by contributing code, reporting bugs, fixing bugs, writing documentation and tutorials and discussing the future of this project. Please check CONTRIBUTE.rst.

For a list of maintainers and contributors please see AUTHORS.rst and the contributor graph.

License

GPLv3+