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

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

• Copernicus Data Spaces Ecosystem (CDSE)
• Australia National Mirror
• Austria National Mirror
• Czech Rebublic National Mirror
• Estonia National Mirror
• Finland National Mirror
• France National Mirror (PEPS)
• Germany National Mirror (CODE-DE)
• Greece National Mirror
• Luxembourg National Mirror
• Norway National Mirror
• Portugal National Mirror
• United Kingdom National Mirror (SEDAS)

Initiatives 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 andareas 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
• DLR Geoservice (Sentinel-2)
  • Download 2 years rolling archive of MAJA-corrected Sentinel-2 scenes covering Germany
• NOAA CoastWatch
  • Sentinel-3 OLCI and Sentinel-2 over United States coasts
• NASA Earthdata
  • search NASA mirrors for Sentinel-1, Sentinel-3, and Sentinel-5P

Providers that host Copernicus Sentinel data and allow you to bring your own code to process it without the need to download the data.

• Open data on AWS
  • Sentinel-2 L1C and L2A hosted in regioneu-central-1 (Frankfurt), requester-pays S3 buckets
  • Sentinel-2 L2A Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs, hosted in regionus-west-2 (Oregon), S3 buckets
    • STAC Browser for Sentinel-2 COG hosted on AWS
  • Sentinel-1 GRD hosted in regioneu-central-1 (Frankfurt), requester-pays S3 buckets
  • Sentinel-1 ARD CONUS - analysis ready dataset of Sentinel-1, tiled COGs, for contiguous United States
  • Sentinel-3 NRT, STC, NTC, COG - all Sentinel-3 products for near-real time, short time critical and not time critical, all products also available converted to COGs
  • Sentinel-5P L2 - all Level-2 products from Sentinel-5P, also available as COG converted data
• Google (Sentinel-2)
  • publicGoogle Cloud Storage bucket,.SAFE format, EU region
• Planet
  • Sentinel-2 included in commercial API
• Microsoft Planetary Computer
  • offers many EO catalogs as COGs, includingSentinel-2 L2A data. provides a STAC-API. data can be obtained free of charge, but must be signed with aSAS token.

Data and Information Access Services (DIAS), funded by the European Commission "providing centralised access to Copernicus data and information, as well as to processing tools"

• CREODIAS
  • full Sentinel archive, free visualization and download throughdata discovery portal andCREODIAS Browser
  • large EOdata archive including Landsat, Envisat and others, next to Copernicus data
• MUNDI
  • Sentinel archive, free visualization and download throughmundi web services
• ONDA DIAS
  • VM Infrastructure as a Service, with an API for access to hosted Copernicus data
• sobloo
  • on-demand processing of thematic products with link to other data-sets (i.e. geo-marketing)
• WEkEO
  • harmonised data access with a REST API, hosted VM options

Specific to Copernicus Sentinel data discovery, download and processing.

• sentinelsat
  • search and download from anyDHuS-powered 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 bySinergise to populate theAWS 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 athttps://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 interfaceSentinel Hub OGC services
• aws-sat-api
  • Simple Serverless API for satellite data hosted on AWS Public Dataset
• sentinel2-search-api
  • query Sentinel-2 data hosted on AWS by MGRS tile
  • API deployed athttps://sentinel2.satgateway.com, tile preview front-end deployed athttps://s2viewer.satgateway.com
• sentinel2_aws
  • Ruby gem for parsing Sentinel-2 metadata from AWS
• eodag
  • command line tool and plugin-oriented Python framework for search and download frommultiple providers including all DIAS
• sentinelloader
  • Sentinel-2 satellite tiles images downloader from Copernicus. Minimizes data download and combines multiple tiles to return a single area of interest

• 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"

  • viewer for Sentinel (1,2,3), Landsat-8, SPOT and Pleiades imagery
  • based onresto search engine and used as frontend forPEPS

• 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

• Research and User Support (RUS)

  • service portal to promote the uptake of Copernicus data and scaling of R&D activities
  • providestraining andcomputing environments

• Sinergise "Sentinel Playground"

  • visualize AWS Sentinel-2 data in different band combinations
  • offers aWMS/WMTS service.

• Sinergise "Sentinel-Hub"

  • search Sentinel-1, 2, 3 and other free satellite data
  • supports pixel based band-math operations andsimple data processing

• SnapPlanet

  • Android /iOS App to to view Sentinel-2 images, compare changes and share

• Spectator

  • real-time tracking of EO satellites, set-up custom channels to track ROI overpass and preview images

• 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

• USGS "Sentinel2Look"

  • variant of theLandsatLook Viewer to search and download Sentinel-2 data from the USGS archive

• ESRI Sentinel-2 Explorer

  • view Sentinel-2 data rendered with anumber of indexes
  • available asArcGIS ImageServer (REST)

• RemotePixel "Viewer"(no longer active)

  • open source viewer for Landsat-8, Sentinel-2 and CBERS-4 data hosted by AWS
  • usessentinel-tiler (tiles server based on AWS Lambda)

• RemotePixel "Satellite Search"(no longer active)

  • open source Browser for Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 data hosted by AWS
  • supports on-the-fly display and calculation of band combinations
  • usesremotepixel-api (based on AWS Lambda)

• SNAP (Sentinel Application Plattform)
  • (pre-)process any Sentinel data
  • also available asdocker
• 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
• EOS Processing
  • workflow library for thematic processing of (Sentinel-2) satellite data
• iCOR
  • atmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 data
  • available asSNAP plugin
• MAJA (MACCS ATCOR Joint Algorithm)
  • atmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 data using time series
  • used forTheia andSen2-Agri
• Sen2-Agri
  • toolbox for processing images for agricultural purposes
  • includes modules for atmospheric correction, monthly syntheses, biophysical variables, crop mask, crop-type classification and anorchestrator
• s2cloudless
  • single scene, pixel-based cloud detection algorithm used atSentinel-Hub
  • accompanying write-up with performance comparison to other cloud detection algorithms
• Sen2Cor
  • atmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 data
  • basis forL2A data published on Copernicus Open Access Hub
• sen2r
  • R toolbox to search, download and pre-process Sentinel-2 data
• ACOLITE
  • atmospheric correction algorithms for aquatic applications of Landsat and Sentinel-2
• C2RCC
  • atmospheric correction of Sentinel-3 and -2 for coast colour applications
  • included in theSNAP toolbox for Sentinel-3
• i.sentinel.mask
  • GRASS GIS addon for atmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 including cloud and shadow detection
• sat-stac-sentinel
  • convert original Sentinel-1 and -2 metadata intoSTAC items
• EOReader
  • Opensource Python library reading Sentinel-1, 2, 3, and other optical and SAR sensors - loading and stacking bands in a sensor-agnostic way
• xsar
  • read Sentinel-1 data into xarray for further processing
• FORCE Processing Framework
  • Generate analysis ready data for Sentinel-2 and Landsat-4/5/7/8/9 (including atmospheric correction and homogenization of Sentinel-2 and Landsat data)

Products, datasets and applications generated from Copernicus Sentinel data.

• EOX "Sentinel-2 cloudless"
  • cloudless,medium brightness,global Sentinel-2 composite
  • also provided asWMTS Layer underCC BY 4.0
  • original GeoTIFF tiles provided on AWS S3 bucket
• S2GLC Land Cover Map of Europe 2017
  • tiles in MGRS (Sentinel-2) available atCREODIAS Finder (collection: S2GLC)