[GRASS-dev] i.sentinel.download addon: let's switch the default to S2MSI2A

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 7:57 PM Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com> wrote:
> El dom., 6 ene. 2019 15:02, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> escribió:
>>
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> ne 6. 1. 2019 v 18:58 odesílatel Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> napsal:
>> > while searching for Sentinel-2 data covering Ireland I discovered that
>> > we missed so far the S2MSI2A product (which is the operational L2A
>> > product while the S2MSI2Ap was only the pilot products generated by
>> > ESA until March 2018). I have fixed that in r73917, see (in some hours
>>
>> thanks for the fix!
>>
>> > Currently the product default is set to S2MSI1C which are the not
>> > atmospherically corrected L1C Sentinel-2 data. For the ease of (new)
>> > users I would suggest to change the default to S2MSI2A.
>> >
>> > Any objections?
>
>
> AFAIU, L2A is produced globally now [0], so no objections, but maybe a note in the manual
> would be useful, i.e., there are no L2A data before December 2018 for areas other than Europe.

I have changed the default to S2MSI2A and updated all the examples in
the manual page as well as note added in r73918 (please check).

> I haven't heard that they will reprocess old scenes, so far. Have anyone?

Nothing seens so far but things may change. Perhaps worth a question
in the Sentinel STEP forum?

Markus

> my 0.2 cents
>
> Vero
>
> [0] https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/news/-/article/sentinel-2-level-2a-production-goes-global


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