[Sentinel-pds] Sentinel-2 L2A availability

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Hello Grega

Thank you for the information very hopeful!

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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Grega Milcinski <
grega.milcinski at sinergise.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> you might have heard that in May ESA started to distribute “pilot
> production of Sentinel-2 L2A products over Europe”:
> https://scihub.copernicus.eu/news/News00179
>
> We have spent last few weeks establishing ingestion mechanism. As
> (unfortunately) expected, the data format was not exactly the same as for
> L1C, which is what we wanted to assure.
> What ESA does to the data is running Sen2Cor processor with a default
> configuration (not the best option, but good enough for summer). This
> results in JP2 data without precints, which is why we re-encode the tiles.
> No additional changes are done to the data, except for renaming and
> restructuring in line with the same concept as L1C data.
> Based on the informal information ESA has corrected the mistake with
> precints and will start distributing updated data in the next few weeks.
>
> The data is available on S3:
> s3://sentinel-s2-l2a
>
> Note that L2A data is available in a Requester Pays bucket which means
> that you can access it freely within the EU Central region, but you will
> incur charges if you download it elsewhere
>
> You can do a quick comparison of L1C and L2A within EO Browser:
> http://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/
>
> L2A data are a few days delayed, something we hope will improve through
> time as well.
>
> PS: as many of you are interested on the status of Sentinel-2B. On 15th of
> June there was an In Orbit Commissioning Review, which (informally) showed
> everything is OK. There are no formal report though. Immediately afterwards
> they should start distributing L1C data so they are 2 weeks late already.
> We expect/hope that data will be available any moment. If there are no
> additional changes introduced, they will be available within AWS in a few
> days after start of distribution, in the same bucket as current L1C so most
> of you should not even notice a difference, except that there will be more
> data.
>
> Regards
> Grega
>
>
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