i.sentinel.download

Downloads Sentinel satellite data from Copernicus Open Access Hub, USGS Earth Explorer, or Google Cloud Storage.

Command linePython (grass.script)

i.sentinel.download [-plsb] [settings=name] [output=name] [footprints=name] [map=name] [area_relation=string] [clouds=integer] [producttype=string] [start=string] [end=string] [limit=integer] [query=string] [id=string [,string,...]] [relativeorbitnumber=integer [,integer,...]] [sleep=string] [retry=string] [datasource=string] [sort=string [,string,...]] [order=string] [--overwrite] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--qq] [--ui]

Example:

i.sentinel.download output=name

grass.script.run_command("i.sentinel.download", settings=None, output=None, footprints=None, map=None, area_relation="Intersects", clouds=None, producttype="S2MSI2A", start=None, end=None, limit=None, query=None, id=None, relativeorbitnumber=None, sleep="1", retry="5", datasource="ESA_CDSE", sort="cloudcoverpercentage,ingestiondate,footprint", order="asc", flags=None, overwrite=False, verbose=False, quiet=False, superquiet=False)

Example:

gs.run_command("i.sentinel.download", output="name")

Parameters

Command linePython (grass.script)

settings=name
    Full path to settings file (user, password)
    '-' for standard input
output=name
    Name for output directory where to store downloaded Sentinel data
footprints=name
    Name for output vector map with footprints
map=name
    Name of input vector map to define Area of Interest (AOI)
    If not given then current computational extent is used
area_relation=string
    Spatial relation of footprint to AOI
    Allowed values: Intersects, Contains, IsWithin
    Default: Intersects
clouds=integer
    Maximum cloud cover percentage for Sentinel scene
producttype=string
    Sentinel product type to filter
    Allowed values: SLC, GRD, OCN, S2MSI1C, S2MSI2A, S3OL1EFR, S3OL1ERR, S3OL1SPC, S3SL1RBT, S3OL2WFR, S3OL2WRR, S3OL2LFR, S3OL2LRR, S3SL2LST, S3SL2FRP, S3SY2SYN, S3SY2VGP, S3SY2VG1, S3SY2V10, S3SY2AOD, S3SR2LAN
    Default: S2MSI2A
start=string
    Start date ('YYYY-MM-DD')
end=string
    End date ('YYYY-MM-DD')
limit=integer
    Limit number of Sentinel products
query=string
    Extra search keywords to use in the query
id=string [,string,...]
    List of ID to download
relativeorbitnumber=integer [,integer,...]
    Relative orbit number to download (Sentinel-1: from 1 to 175; Sentinel-2: from 1 to 143; Sentinel-3: from 1 to 385)
sleep=string
    Sleep time in minutes before retrying to download data from ESA LTA
    Default: 1
retry=string
    Maximum number of retries before skipping to the next scene at ESA LTA
    Default: 5
datasource=string
    The currently supported provider is ESA Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (ESA_CDSE)
    Data-Hub to download scenes from.
    Allowed values: ESA_CDSE
    Default: ESA_CDSE
sort=string [,string,...]
    Sort by values in given order
    Allowed values: ingestiondate, cloudcoverpercentage, footprint
    Default: cloudcoverpercentage,ingestiondate,footprint
order=string
    Sort order (see sort parameter)
    Allowed values: asc, desc
    Default: asc
-p
    Print compiled query string and exit (only supported for ESA_COAH)
-l
    List filtered products and exit
-s
    Skip scenes that have already been downloaded after ingestiondate
-b
    Use the borders of the AOI polygon and not the region of the AOI
--overwrite
    Allow output files to overwrite existing files
--help
    Print usage summary
--verbose
    Verbose module output
--quiet
    Quiet module output
--qq
    Very quiet module output
--ui
    Force launching GUI dialog

settings : str, optional
    Full path to settings file (user, password)
    '-' for standard input
    Used as: input, file, name
output : str, optional
    Name for output directory where to store downloaded Sentinel data
    Used as: input, dir, name
footprints : str, optional
    Name for output vector map with footprints
    Used as: output, vector, name
map : str, optional
    Name of input vector map to define Area of Interest (AOI)
    If not given then current computational extent is used
    Used as: input, vector, name
area_relation : str, optional
    Spatial relation of footprint to AOI
    Allowed values: Intersects, Contains, IsWithin
    Default: Intersects
clouds : int, optional
    Maximum cloud cover percentage for Sentinel scene
producttype : str, optional
    Sentinel product type to filter
    Allowed values: SLC, GRD, OCN, S2MSI1C, S2MSI2A, S3OL1EFR, S3OL1ERR, S3OL1SPC, S3SL1RBT, S3OL2WFR, S3OL2WRR, S3OL2LFR, S3OL2LRR, S3SL2LST, S3SL2FRP, S3SY2SYN, S3SY2VGP, S3SY2VG1, S3SY2V10, S3SY2AOD, S3SR2LAN
    Default: S2MSI2A
start : str, optional
    Start date ('YYYY-MM-DD')
end : str, optional
    End date ('YYYY-MM-DD')
limit : int, optional
    Limit number of Sentinel products
query : str, optional
    Extra search keywords to use in the query
id : str | list[str], optional
    List of ID to download
relativeorbitnumber : int | list[int] | str, optional
    Relative orbit number to download (Sentinel-1: from 1 to 175; Sentinel-2: from 1 to 143; Sentinel-3: from 1 to 385)
sleep : str, optional
    Sleep time in minutes before retrying to download data from ESA LTA
    Default: 1
retry : str, optional
    Maximum number of retries before skipping to the next scene at ESA LTA
    Default: 5
datasource : str, optional
    The currently supported provider is ESA Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (ESA_CDSE)
    Data-Hub to download scenes from.
    Allowed values: ESA_CDSE
    Default: ESA_CDSE
sort : str | list[str], optional
    Sort by values in given order
    Allowed values: ingestiondate, cloudcoverpercentage, footprint
    Default: cloudcoverpercentage,ingestiondate,footprint
order : str, optional
    Sort order (see sort parameter)
    Allowed values: asc, desc
    Default: asc
flags : str, optional
    Allowed values: p, l, s, b
    p
        Print compiled query string and exit (only supported for ESA_COAH)
    l
        List filtered products and exit
    s
        Skip scenes that have already been downloaded after ingestiondate
    b
        Use the borders of the AOI polygon and not the region of the AOI
overwrite: bool, optional
    Allow output files to overwrite existing files
    Default: False
verbose: bool, optional
    Verbose module output
    Default: False
quiet: bool, optional
    Quiet module output
    Default: False
superquiet: bool, optional
    Very quiet module output
    Default: False

DESCRIPTION

The i.sentinel.download addon allows downloading Sentinel satellite products from the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem.

Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Using the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem for searching and downloading Copernicus Sentinel data is the default option. The following product types (parameter producttype) are currently supported for download from the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem:

• Sentinel-1 (SAR; available from Oct 2014 to present day) (SAR) products:
• SLC: Single Look Complex (Level-1)
• GRD: Ground Range Detected (Level-1)
• GRDCOG: COG format based Ground Range Detected (Level-1)
• OCN: Ocean products for wind, wave and currents applications (Level-2)
• Sentinel-2 (optical and infrared; available from July 2015 to present day) (optical) products:
• S2MSI2A: operational Bottom-Of-Atmosphere reflectances in cartographic geometry Level-2A)
• S2MSI1C: Top-Of-Atmosphere reflectances in cartographic geometry (Level-1C)
• Sentinel-3 (OLCI and SLSTR instrument data products at level 2, for OLCI sensor also Level 1; available from April 2018 to present day) (optical) products:
• S3OL1EFR: Land colour and atmosphere TOA radiances at full resolution
• S3OL1ERR: Land colour and atmosphere TOA radiances at reduced resolution
• S3SL1RBT: Brightness temperatures and radiances
• S3OL2WFR: Ocean colour, water and atmosphere geophysical parameters
• S3OL2WRR: Ocean colour, water and atmosphere geophysical parameters at reduced resolution
• S3OL2LFR: Land colour and atmosphere geophysical parameters
• S3OL2LRR: Land colour and atmosphere geophysical parameters at reduced resolution
• S3SL2LST: Land Surface Temperature
• S3SL2FRP: Fire Radiative Power
• S3SR2LAN: Land Surface Height
• S3SY2SYN: Surface Reflectance and Aerosol parameters over Land
• S3SY2VGP: 1 km VEGETATION-Like product (\~VGT-P) - TOA Reflectance
• S3SY2VG1: 1 km VEGETATION-Like product (\~VGT-S1) 1 day synthesis surface reflectance and NDVI
• S3SY2V10: 1 km VEGETATION-Like product (\~VGT-S10) 10 day synthesis surface reflectance and NDVI
• S3SY2AOD: Global Aerosol parameter over land and sea on super pixel resolution (4.5 km x 4.5 km)

To connect to the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem both a user name and password are required; see Register new account page for signing up.

Copernicus Open Access Hub (DEPRECTAED)

Copernicus Open Access Hub is now permanently closed. To continue accessing Copernicus Sentinel data, Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem is now the new successor.

USGS Earth Explorer (DEPRECATED)

Google Cloud Storage (DEPRECATED)

Credentials file

i.sentinel.download reads the user credentials from the settings file. The file must contain at least two lines:

myusername
mypassword

NOTES

The data hub to download from can be indicated with the datasource option. ESA's Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem is the default, and currently only, option.

User credentials can be also defined interactively when settings=- is given. Note that interactive prompt does not work in the graphical user interface.

Insert username: myusername
Insert password:

By default Sentinel products are sorted by cloudcoverpercentage and ingestiondate (see sort option). By default, only products which footprint intersects current computation region extent (area of interest, AOI) are filtered. The AOI can be optionally defined also by vector map. In addition the spatial relation between AOI and the footprint (area_relation) can be set to

• Contains: to only return scenes where the AOI is contained inside the footprint (Only supported by Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem)
• IsWithin: to only return scenes where the footprint is contained inside the AOI (Only supported by Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem)
• Intersects: to return all scenes where the footprint intersects the AOI (default)

Filtered products can be reduced by limit option.

i.sentinel.download limits the default search for products to the last 60 days; an exact date range can be defined by start and end parameters to search beyond that.

Sentinel products can be also filtered by producttype or, in case of S2MSI1C, S2MSI2A, S3SY2SYN, S3SY2VGP, S3SY2VG1, S3SY2VG1 and S3SY2AOD, maximum clouds cover percentage.

Extra search keywords can be specified with query. Multiple keywords can be listed separated with comma (e.g. 'polarizationChannels=VV\&VH,orbitdirection=ASCENDING').

List of Some Queryables:

• orbitNumber
• timeliness (e.g. NT, NRT-3h, etc...)
• processingBaseline
• polarizationChannels (e.g. VV\&VH)
• storageStatus

Note refer to i.eodag to get a list of all queryables. Note that text based queryables have to be upper-case. Scenes with unavailbe queryable information are filtered out (e.g. if a product has the timeliness queryable set as Null, then it will be filtered out if you use query="timeliness=NT"). If a scene doesn't have a queryable as part of its metadata, the scene will be silently maintained without any warnings.

i.sentinel.download also allows downloading of Sentinel products by specifying a (list of) ID, where ID refers to the scene name on Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. This operation is performed by the id option. Note that this option is mutually exclusive with all other filtering options. The id option also accepts text files with (list of) ID, one ID per line.

In case a Sentinel data download was interrupted, i.sentinel.download will restart the download for the paritally downloaded data, from scratch, once the command is re-excuted.

The output directory is created if not yet available. Default is current working directory.

EXAMPLES

List filtered products

Find all atmospherically corrected Sentinel-2 L2A products (S2MSI2) in 2018 (area in Italy as an example):

g.region n=42 w=12 s=41 e=13 res=0:01 -p

i.sentinel.download -l settings=credentials.txt producttype=S2MSI2A start=2018-01-01 end=2018-12-31

1062 Sentinel product(s) found.
S2B_MSIL2A_20180124T101309_N9999_R022_T32TQL_20230726T165433 2018-01-24T10:13:09   0% S2MSI2A 43.38 MB
S2B_MSIL2A_20180124T101309_N9999_R022_T33TTF_20230726T182752 2018-01-24T10:13:09   0% S2MSI2A 42.07 MB
S2A_MSIL2A_20180129T101251_N9999_R022_T32TQM_20221022T182543 2018-01-29T10:12:51   0% S2MSI2A 613.37 MB
S2A_MSIL2A_20180129T101251_N9999_R022_T33TTG_20221023T032353 2018-01-29T10:12:51   0% S2MSI2A 630.21 MB
S2B_MSIL2A_20180210T100139_N9999_R122_T32TQM_20221022T182154 2018-02-10T10:01:39   0% S2MSI2A 0.98 GB
S2B_MSIL2A_20180210T100139_N9999_R122_T33TTG_20221023T032353 2018-02-10T10:01:39   0% S2MSI2A 996.95 MB
[...]

Sort products by ingestiondate, limit cloud coverage to 3% per scene:

g.region n=42 w=12 s=41 e=13 res=0:01 -p
i.sentinel.download -l settings=credentials.txt producttype=S2MSI2A start=2018-01-01 end=2018-12-31 sort=ingestiondate order=desc clouds=3

197 Sentinel product(s) found.
S2B_MSIL2A_20180928T100019_N0208_R122_T32TQM_20180928T180353 2018-09-28T10:00:19   0% S2MSI2A 0.0 MB
S2B_MSIL2A_20180928T100019_N0208_R122_T33TUF_20180928T180353 2018-09-28T10:00:19   1% S2MSI2A 0.0 MB
S2B_MSIL2A_20180928T100019_N0208_R122_T33TUG_20180928T180353 2018-09-28T10:00:19   1% S2MSI2A 0.0 MB
S2B_MSIL2A_20180928T100019_N0208_R122_T32TQL_20180928T180353 2018-09-28T10:00:19   0% S2MSI2A 234.59 MB
S2B_MSIL2A_20180928T100019_N0208_R122_T33TTG_20180928T180353 2018-09-28T10:00:19   0% S2MSI2A 0.0 MB
[...]

Create a vector map of footprints of S-2 scenes with clouds limited to 3% per scene (note that topological errors will be shown since some footprint overlap):

g.region n=42 w=12 s=41 e=13 res=0:01 -p
i.sentinel.download -l settings=credentials.txt producttype=S2MSI2A start=2018-01-01 end=2018-12-31 clouds=1 footprints=s2_scenes_footprints

Writing footprints into <s2_scenes_footprints<...
197 scene(s) found.
[...]
S2B_MSIL2A_20180210T100139_N9999_R122_T32TQM_20221022T182154 2018-02-10T10:01:39   0% S2MSI2A 0.98 GB
S2B_MSIL2A_20180210T100139_N9999_R122_T33TTG_20221023T032353 2018-02-10T10:01:39   0% S2MSI2A 996.95 MB
S2A_MSIL2A_20180406T100031_N0206_R122_T33TUF_20180406T120928 2018-04-06T10:00:31   0% S2MSI2A 0.0 MB
S2A_MSIL2A_20181023T100051_N9999_R122_T32TQM_20221022T181952 2018-10-23T10:00:51   0% S2MSI2A 1.0 GB
S2A_MSIL2A_20181023T100051_N9999_R122_T33TTG_20221023T032324 2018-10-23T10:00:51   0% S2MSI2A 0.99 GB
S2A_MSIL2A_20181205T101401_N9999_R022_T32TQM_20221022T180259 2018-12-05T10:14:01   0% S2MSI2A 625.52 MB
[...]

Find Sentinel-2 L1C products (S2MSI1C) of last 60 days (default) covering current computation region extent:

g.region n=42 w=12 s=41 e=13 res=0:01 -p
i.sentinel.download -l settings=credentials.txt producttype=S2MSI1C sort=ingestiondate

100 scene(s) found.
S2B_MSIL1C_20240611T100559_N0510_R022_T33TTF_20240611T120915 2024-06-11T10:05:59  40% S2MSI1C 327.18 MB
S2B_MSIL1C_20240611T100559_N0510_R022_T32TQL_20240611T120915 2024-06-11T10:05:59  40% S2MSI1C 359.88 MB
S2B_MSIL1C_20240611T100559_N0510_R022_T33TTG_20240611T120915 2024-06-11T10:05:59  49% S2MSI1C 522.2 MB
S2B_MSIL1C_20240611T100559_N0510_R022_T32TQM_20240611T120915 2024-06-11T10:05:59  48% S2MSI1C 503.76 MB
S2A_MSIL1C_20240613T100031_N0510_R122_T32TQM_20240613T134114 2024-06-13T10:00:31  33% S2MSI1C 759.46 MB
[...]

Find Sentinel-1 products by one or several specified IDs:

i.sentinel.download -l settings=credentials.txt id=S1A_IW_SLC__1SDV_20240609T052012_20240609T052039_054242_0698FA_72DA --quiet
S1A_IW_SLC__1SDV_20240609T052012_20240609T052039_054242_0698FA_72DA 2024-06-09T05:20:12   0% S2MSI2A 7.71 GB

Find Sentinel-1 products with date range filter and query filter limit to a specific polarisation mode (see here for query details):

i.sentinel.download -l settings=credentials.txt producttype=SLC start=2018-01-01 end=2018-12-31 query='polarizationChannels=VV&VH'
393 scene(s) found.
S1B_IW_SLC__1SDV_20180101T051051_20180101T051118_008973_010039_B427 2018-01-01T05:10:51 cloudcover_NA SLC 7.47 GB
S1B_IW_SLC__1SDV_20180101T051116_20180101T051143_008973_010039_CF15 2018-01-01T05:11:16 cloudcover_NA SLC 7.46 GB
S1A_IW_SLC__1SDV_20180101T170507_20180101T170535_019964_021FFD_BC68 2018-01-01T17:05:07 cloudcover_NA SLC 7.7 GB
S1A_IW_SLC__1SDV_20180101T170532_20180101T170559_019964_021FFD_E2C9 2018-01-01T17:05:32 cloudcover_NA SLC 7.41 GB
S1B_IW_SLC__1SDV_20180102T165631_20180102T165658_008995_0100F0_5814 2018-01-02T16:56:31 cloudcover_NA SLC 7.71 GB
S1B_IW_SLC__1SDV_20180106T051902_20180106T051929_009046_0102AB_009C 2018-01-06T05:19:02 cloudcover_NA SLC 7.47 GB
[...]

Find Sentinel-2 L1C products (S2MSI1C) covering an exemplary region in Germany with temporal and cloud filter.

g.region n=51 w=6 s=50 e=7 res=0:01 -p

i.sentinel.download start=2017-09-01 end=2017-12-01 clouds=10 producttype=S2MSI1C settings=credentials.txt -l
40 scene(s) found.
S2B_MSIL1C_20171015T104009_N0205_R008_T32ULB_20171015T104525 2017-10-15T10:40:09   0% S2MSI1C 0.0 MB
S2B_MSIL1C_20171015T104009_N0500_R008_T31UGS_20231026T234139 2017-10-15T10:40:09   0% S2MSI1C 807.9 MB
S2B_MSIL1C_20171015T104009_N0500_R008_T32ULB_20231026T234139 2017-10-15T10:40:09   0% S2MSI1C 807.19 MB
S2A_MSIL1C_20171017T103021_N0205_R108_T31UGR_20171017T103024 2017-10-17T10:30:21   0% S2MSI1C 0.0 MB
S2A_MSIL1C_20171017T103021_N0500_R108_T31UGR_20231015T102148 2017-10-17T10:30:21   0% S2MSI1C 460.84 MB
[...]

Download Sentinel products

Download first (limit=1) S2MSI2A product found into the data directory:

g.region n=42 w=12 s=41 e=13 res=0:01 -p
i.sentinel.download settings=credentials.txt producttype=S2MSI2A start=2018-05-01 end=2018-05-31 limit=1 output=s2_L2A_may2018/

The downloaded Sentinel data can subsequently be easily imported into GRASS GIS using i.sentinel.import module.

Download Sentinel products by ID

Example of downloading a single Sentinel product by ID:

i.sentinel.download settings=credentials.txt id=S2B_MSIL2A_20180210T100139_N9999_R122_T32TQM_20221022T182154 output=s2_data/

REQUIREMENTS

• i.eodag
• EODAG library (install with pip install eodag)

SEE ALSO

Overview of i.sentinel toolset

i.sentinel.import, i.sentinel.preproc, i.sentinel.mask, r.import, r.external, v.import

Finding UUID by Sentinel scene name (example: 'S2B_MSIL2A_20190724T103029_N0213_R108_T32ULA_20190724T130550'):

1. Visit the following page: browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu
2. Go into the "Search" tab.
3. Paste Sentinel scene ID into the Search Box, and press Search.
4. A single scene should show up. Press the info icon on the bottom right of the scene.
5. The UUID is shown in the URL at the bottom of the scene window, between brackets.
   (e.g. https://zipper.dataspace.copernicus.eu/odata/v1/Products(**3cfcc58f-8316-5df0-b55e-e1831e745b51**)/$value) so the UUID is 3cfcc58f-8316-5df0-b55e-e1831e745b51 in this case

See also GRASS GIS Workshop in Jena for usage examples.

AUTHORS

Martin Landa, GeoForAll Lab, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic with support of OpenGeoLabs company
Guido Riembauer, mundialis (USGS and GCS provider support)
Hamed Elgizery, Giza, Egypt. (EODAG Migration)

SOURCE CODE

Available at: i.sentinel.download source code (history)
Latest change: Thursday Mar 20 21:36:57 2025 in commit 7286ecf