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
• Czech Rebublic 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 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
• 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 region eu-central-1 (Frankfurt), requester-pays S3 buckets
  • Sentinel-2 L2A Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs, hosted in region us-west-2 (Oregon), S3 buckets
    • STAC Browser for Sentinel-2 COG hosted on AWS
  • Sentinel-1 GRD hosted in region eu-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)
  • public Google Cloud Storage bucket, .SAFE format, EU region
• Planet
  • Sentinel-2 included in commercial API

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 through data discovery portal and CREODIAS Browser
  • large EO data archive including Landsat, Envisat and others, next to Copernicus data
• MUNDI
  • Sentinel archive, free visualization and download through mundi 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 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-search-api
  • query Sentinel-2 data hosted on AWS by MGRS tile
  • API deployed at https://sentinel2.satgateway.com, tile preview front-end deployed at https://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 from multiple 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 on resto search engine and used as frontend for PEPS
• 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
  • 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 the LandsatLook Viewer to search and download Sentinel-2 data from the USGS archive
• ESRI Sentinel-2 Explorer
  • view Sentinel-2 data rendered with a number of indexes
  • available as ArcGIS ImageServer (REST)

• 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
• EOS Processing
  • workflow library for thematic processing of (Sentinel-2) satellite data
• iCOR
  • atmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 data
  • available as SNAP plugin
• MAJA (MACCS ATCOR Joint Algorithm)
  • atmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 data using time series
  • used for Theia and Sen2-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 an orchestrator
• s2cloudless
  • 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
• 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 the SNAP 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 into STAC 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

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
• S2GLC Land Cover Map of Europe 2017
  • tiles in MGRS (Sentinel-2) available at CREODIAS Finder (collection: S2GLC)