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Sentinel-2

Sentinel-2

This product is part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative and contains data sets that are publicly available for anyone to access and use. No subscription is required. Unless specifically stated in the applicable data set documentation, data sets available through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative are not provided and maintained by AWS.

Description

The Sentinel-2 mission  is a land monitoring constellation of two satellites that provide high resolution optical imagery and provide continuity for the current SPOT and Landsat missions. The mission provides a global coverage of the Earth's land surface every 5 days, making the data of great use in on-going studies. L1C data are available from June 2015 globally. L2A data are available from November 2016 over Europe region and globally since January 2017.

License

Access to Sentinel data is free, full and open for the broad Regional, National, European and International user community. View Terms and Conditions .

Documentation

Documentation is available for Sentinel-2 L1C  and Sentinel-2 L2A .

How to cite

Sentinel-2 was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/sentinel-2 .

Update frequency
New Sentinel data are added regularly, usually within few hours after they are available on Copernicus OpenHub.
Support information
General AWS Data Exchange support

Resources on AWS

Description

Level 1C scenes and metadata, in Requester Pays S3 bucket

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::sentinel-s2-l1c
AWS Region
eu-central-1

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --request-payer requester s3://sentinel-s2-l1c/
Description

S3 Inventory files for L1C (ORC and CSV)

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::sentinel-inventory/sentinel-s2-l1c
AWS Region
eu-central-1

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://sentinel-inventory/sentinel-s2-l1c/
Description

Level 2A scenes and metadata, in Requester Pays S3 bucket

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::sentinel-s2-l2a
AWS Region
eu-central-1

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --request-payer requester s3://sentinel-s2-l2a/
Description

S3 Inventory files for L2A (ORC and CSV)

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::sentinel-inventory/sentinel-s2-l2a
AWS Region
eu-central-1

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://sentinel-inventory/sentinel-s2-l2a/
Description

Zipped archives for each L1C product with 3 day retention period, in Requester Pays bucket

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::sentinel-s2-l1c-zips
AWS Region
eu-central-1

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --request-payer requester s3://sentinel-s2-l1c-zips/
Description

Zipped archives for each L2A product with 3 day retention period, in Requester Pays bucket

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::sentinel-s2-l2a-zips
AWS Region
eu-central-1

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --request-payer requester s3://sentinel-s2-l2a-zips/
Description

New scene notifications for L1C, can subscribe with Lambda or SQS.

Resource type
SNS Topic
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:214830741341:NewSentinel2Product
AWS Region
eu-west-1
Description

New scene notifications for L2A, can subscribe with Lambda or SQS.

Resource type
SNS Topic
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:sns:eu-central-1:214830741341:SentinelS2L2A
AWS Region
eu-central-1

Usage examples