A curated list of awesome tools, tutorials and APIs related to data from the Copernicus Sentinel Satellites.
Official datahubs and mirrors by the Copernicus partners and Collaborative Ground Segment members.
- Copernicus Open Access Hub (SciHub)
- Australia National Mirror
- Austria National Mirror
- Finland National Mirror
- France National Mirror (PEPS)
- Germany National Mirror (CODE-DE)
- Greece National Mirror
- Italy National Mirror
- Norway National Mirror
- Portugal National Mirror
- Sweden National Mirror (SWEA)
- United Kingdom National Mirror (SEDAS)
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)
- atmospherically corrected L2A products covering several European countries and areas proposed by scientists
- published less than two days after L1C is available
- USGS EarthExplorer (Sentinel-2)
- EUMETSAT CODA (Sentinel-3 Marine Products)
- 14 day rolling archive of Sentinel-3 L1 and L2 marine products in near real-time (NRT), short time critical (STC) and non time critical (NTC) latency mode
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,
.SAFEformat, EU region
- public Google Cloud Storage bucket,
- Planet
- Sentinel-2 included in commercial API
Specific to Copernicus Sentinel data discovery, download and processing.
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
awsdownload- downloader for Sentinel-2 products from Amazon or SciHub
sentinelhub-py- Python library for downloading Sentinel-2 data from Amazon into ESA .SAFE format and interface Sentinel Hub OGC services
aws-sat-api- Simple Serverless API for satellite data hosted on AWS Public Dataset
sentinel2_aws- Ruby gem for parsing Sentinel-2 metadata from AWS
- AWS/Sinergise "Sentinel Image Browser"
- search Sentinel-2 data available on Amazon Webservices
- EOS "Land Viewer"
- viewer for Landsat-8/7, MODIS and Sentinel-2 data hosted by AWS
- visualize band combinations on-the-fly
- jeobrowser "Rocket"
- mundialis "EO-me"
- viewer for Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 data with custom metadata filters
- satellite tiles enriched with additional metadata (e.g. terrain statistics, NDVI at overpass, climatic parameters, population count)
- OceanDataLab
- portals focussing on Ocean Remote Sensing data, including Sentinel-1 and 3
- RemotePixel "Viewer"
- open source viewer for Landsat-8, Sentinel-2 and CBERS-4 data hosted by AWS
- uses
sentinel-tiler(tiles server based on AWS Lambda)
- RemotePixel "Satellite Search"
- open source Browser for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 data hosted by AWS
- supports on-the-fly display and calculation of band combinations
- uses
remotepixel-api(based on AWS Lambda)
- Research and User Support (RUS)
- service portal to promote the uptake of Copernicus data and scaling of R&D activities
- provides training and computing environments
- Sinergise "Sentinel Playground"
- visualize AWS Sentinel-2 data in different band combinations
- offers a WMS/WMTS service.
- Sinergise "Sentinel-Hub"
- search Sentinel-1, 2, 3 and other free satellite data
- supports pixel based band-math operations and simple data processing
- SnapPlanet
- Spectator
- offers real-time tracking of EO satellites, managing and sharing observations
- allows to search and preview Sentinel-1, 2, 3 data and more
- Thematic Exploitation Platforms "TEPs"
- platforms for finding and processing (Sentinel) data relating to a thematic topic
- available platforms: Coastal, Forestry, Geohazards, Hydrology, Polar, Urban, Food Security
SNAP(Sentinel Application Plattform)- (pre-)process any Sentinel data
- also available as docker
ARCSI(Atmospheric and Radiometric Correction of Satellite Imagery)- atmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 data
- Google Earth Engine
- process the global Sentinel archives directly on Google's servers
iCOR- atmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 data
- available as
SNAPplugin
MAJA(MACCS ATCOR Joint Algorithm)Sen2-Agri- toolbox for processing images for agricultural purposes
- includes modules for atmospheric correction, monthly syntheses, biophysical variables, crop mask, crop-type classification and an orchestrator
sentinel2-cloud-detector- single scene, pixel-based cloud detection algorithm used at Sentinel-Hub
- accompanying write-up with performance comparison to other cloud detection algorithms
Sen2Cor- atmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 data
- basis for L2A data published on Copernicus Open Access Hub
Products, datasets and applications generated from Copernicus Sentinel data.
- EOX "Sentinel-2 cloudless"
- cloudless, medium brightness, global Sentinel-2 composite
- also provided as WMTS Layer under CC BY 4.0
- original GeoTIFF tiles provided on AWS S3 bucket