SENTINEL

Sentinel 2

Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission developed by ESA as part of the Copernicus Programme to perform terrestrial observations in support of services such as forest monitoring, land cover changes detection, and natural disaster management. It consists of two identical satellites, Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B. Details about the mission, user and technical guides as well as other documentation can be found at the ESA dedicated website [1] and a number of other sites.

Data download

Sentinel-2 data might be obtained from the Copernicus Open Access Hub, either by using the online interactive interface and browsing to your area of interest or by means of the API Hub. There are several other sites from which it is possible to download Sentinel-2 imagery as well. Here, some of them:

• Sentinel-app
• Amazon S3
• Copernicus Data and Exploitation Platform – Deutschland (CODE-DE)
• mundialis
• RemotePixel
• Land Viewer

For those preferring or needing to download data via the API, there also exist several options:

• sentinelsat: Python utilities to access the API of Copernicus Sentinels Scientific Data Hub (useful for all Sentinel satellite imagery)
• Sentinel-download: Automated download of Sentinel-2 L1C data from ESA (through wget)