Does the Amazon-service for S-2 data work better i wonder.+
The potential for a bypass of the ESA portal is there. Right now it is in alpha.
There is still no way to just get the main RGB bands which will account for 99.999% of public interest. Still no usable preview to see if your select rectangle is clouded over. An hour and 37 minute download of 8.3 GB followed by immediate deletion of 8.0 GB followed by cropping to 0.003 GB followed by web viewable forum post max of 0.0003.
It's worth a visit just to wonder about how an interface team could be so gloriously incompetent. Where did ESA find these people, did they not ask for previous programming experience? I mean, they can't even get the days of the month to present in order. The map search is separately incompetent.
Normally there is QA baked into every programming process but here it is abundantly clear no one looked at the product prior to release. Did they not watch what happened when a few average users tried to use it? Talking about a few hours at most to at least kill the worst bugs. This is so clueless,
it has to be a partnership with a big military-industrial corporate-- a small legitimate shop could not survive at this skill level.
And all this just to reinvent the EarthExplorer wheel! Which is open source, free for the taking!
Here are a couple of March 2016 Petermanns. For some reason, they don't use the last part of the file name, eg T20XNQ
. I have no idea if these scenes will be useful or not. Meanwhile, the download time has slipped to an hour and 39 minutes remaining, after downloading for 20 minutes!!!
S2A_OPER_PRD_MSIL1C_PDMC_20160322T061228_R041_V20160321T180021_20160321T180021_T20XNQ
S2A_OPER_PRD_MSIL1C_PDMC_20160322T061228_R041_V20160321T180021_20160321T180021_T21XVK
Meanwhile Landsat is posting almost daily Petermann scenes with incredible clarity. Why then bother with Sentinel 2A? Because at Petermann 10 m vs 15 m resolution matters: we are looking at tip widening on ice shelf cracks to get a handle on the next big cleavage event. That extra resolution will be a big help here. And the color too for melt water channels.
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