About

The S2-Downloader allows to download Sentinel-2 L2A data from the cost-free Sentinel-2 Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs archive located at Amazon and set by Element 84. It specifically serves the purpose to download data for user-defined area of interests (AOI), defined by a bounding box or whole tiles which are the original data product provided by ESA. For each request it is possible to select the Sentinel-2 mission, define the date range, set the cloud-coverage and data coverage within the AOI or on tile level, select which bands should be downloaded and to which resolution the data should be re-sampled. It exploits the Cloud Optimized GeoTiffs features for efficient data search and download. This dataset contains all of the scenes in the original Sentinel-2 Public Dataset and will grow as that does. L2A data are available from April 2017 over wider Europe region and globally since December 2018.

With a simple POST request a user can obtain a stack of mosaics for an AOI which covers multiple Sentinel-2 tiles or download whole tiles. The complete list of available parameters for a POST request can be found here.

If you are interested in knowing more about the S2-Downloader and using it, please send us an email at: fern.lab.team@gfz.de.