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How to get direct access to EODATA?
How to get direct access to EODATA?

Come and discover how to have direct access to EODATA with your Standard Virtual Machines plan.

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Written by David Bina
Updated over a week ago

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By subscribing to the Standard Virtual Machines plan through WEkEO, you can tap into a vast and continuously growing repository of data, access it through multiple interfaces, and even process it directly in the cloud. This article guides you on how to gain direct access to EODATA and make the most of the available resources.

What is EODATA?


EODATA represents a comprehensive and diverse set of Earth observation data from various satellite missions within the Copernicus programme and other sources. Here's an overview of what EODATA includes:

  • Sentinel-1: C-band radar data, covering the entire world, available in formats such as GRD, SLC, and others

  • Sentinel-2: High-resolution multispectral data, available in L1C and L2A processing levels

  • Sentinel-3: Data from altimetry, radiometry, and optical oceanography, available in various processing levels and categories (OLCI, SLSTR, SRAL, SYN)

  • Sentinel-5P: Atmospheric monitoring data, with L1B and L2 processing levels

  • Landsat: Historical and current data from Landsat-5, Landsat-7, and Landsat-8, covering Europe and other regions

  • Envisat: Data from the MERIS instrument, covering the period from 2002 to 2012

  • SMOS: Microwave radiometry data, available since 2010

  • ECOSTRESS: Thermal surface monitoring data, available since 2022

These data are accessible through various interfaces, including S3-like object storage, WMS/WMTS, and file systems, allowing easy integration into different processing and analysis workflows.

Get direct access to EODATA


As a WEkEO user who has purchased a Standard Virtual Machines plan, you have access to data, including:

Online

Local and immediate access to Earth observation data, growing by around 20 TB daily.

EODATA, available online

  • full (time and space coverage) Sentinel-1 GRD, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, new Sentinels (like 5P), ESA/Landsat, Envisat/Meris,

  • full Sentinel-1 SLC for Europe and

  • 6 months rolling archive for Sentinel-1 SLC outside Europe,

  • elements of Copernicus Services (check available datasets in the Data Catalogue)

Immense cache

Starting at 1 PB for external data; API call to order any data available in the Finder.

Wide range of data access interfaces:

  • S3-like object interface,

  • WMS/WMTS access,

  • file system (best effort, not recommended) interface for legacy software

No need to download data

The data can be processed directly from the cloud; for sample processing app check S2Scenes.

Easy tools to discover and browse data

Finder tools to browse and download data

๐Ÿ’กWEkEO Pro Tip: find all the documentation to get a direct access to EODATA:

List of all available EODATA

Satellite

Product type

Instrument

Spatial Range

Temporal Range

Type of Access

Sentinel-1

GRD

SAR C-BAND

World

Last 1 Year

IAD

Sentinel-1

GRD-COG

SAR C-BAND

World

Oct-14 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-1

RTC

SAR C-BAND

World

Dec-14 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-1

OCN

SAR C-BAND

World

Dec-14 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-1

RAW

SAR C-BAND

Europe World Rest of World

Jan-21 - Present Oct-14 - Present-1 year Last 1 year

IAD DAD IAD

Sentinel-1

SLC

SAR C-BAND

World

Oct-14 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-2

L1C

MSI

World

Jul-15 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-2

L2A

MSI

World

Jul-15 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-3

OLCI Level-1 NTC

OLCI

World

Mar-16 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-3

OLCI Level-1 NRT

OLCI

World

Last 1 year

IAD

Sentinel-3

OLCI Level-2 NTC

OLCI

World

Mar-16 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-3

OLCI Level-2 NRT

OLCI

World

Last 1 year

IAD

Sentinel-3

SLSTR Level-1 NTC

SLSTR

World

Mar-16 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-3

SLSTR Level-1 NRT

SLSTR

World

Last 1 year

IAD

Sentinel-3

SLSTR Level-2 NTC

SLSTR

World

Mar-16 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-3

SLSTR Level-2 NRT

SLSTR

World

Last 1 year

IAD

Sentinel-3

SRAL Level-1 NTC

SRAL

World

Mar-16 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-3

SRAL Level-1 STC

SRAL

World

Last 1 month

IAD

Sentinel-3

SRAL Level-1 NRT

SRAL

World

Last 1 year

IAD

Sentinel-3

SRAL Level-2 NTC

SRAL

World

Mar-16 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-3

SRAL Level-2 STC

SRAL

World

Last 1 month

IAD

Sentinel-3

SRAL Level-2 NRT

SRAL

World

Last 1 year

IAD

Sentinel-3

SYN Level-2 NTC

SYNERGY

World

Mar-16 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-3

SYN Level-2 STC

SYNERGY

World

Last 1 month

IAD

Sentinel-5P

Level-1B NTC

TROPOMI

World

Apr-18 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-5P

Level-2 NTC

TROPOMI

World

Apr-18 - Present

IAD

Sentinel-5P

Level-2 NRT

TROPOMI

World

Last 1 month

IAD

Sentinel-6A

L1, L2

POS-4, AMR-C

World

Full archive

IAD

Landsat-5

L1G, L1T, L1GT

TM

Europe

1984-2011

IAD

Landsat-7

L1G, L1T, L1GT

ET

Europe

1999-2017

IAD

Landsat-8

L1T, L1GT

OLI, OLI TIRS

Coverage of Europe

IAD

Envisat

L1

MERIS

World

2002-2012

IAD

SMOS

L1B, L1C, L2

MIRAS

World

2010 - present

IAD

S2GL

-

-

Europe

2017

IAD

ECOSTRESS

-

-

WORLD

2022

IAD

Subscribe to the Standard Virtual Machines plan


To benefit from direct access to EODATA and other features, you need to subscribe to the Standard Virtual Machines plan.

Steps to Subscribe:

  1. For more information on features and pricing, visit the Computing page and click on "See pricing options".

  2. Contact WEkEO sales at wekeo-sales@thalesaleniaspace.com and indicate your exhaustive needs.

What's next?


We are user-driven and we implement users' suggestions, so feel free to contact us:

  • through a chat session available in the bottom right corner of the page

  • via e-mail to our support team (supportATwekeo.eu)

Regardless of how you choose to contact us, you will first be put in touch with our AI Agent Neo. At any time, you can reach a member of the WEkEO User Support team by clicking on "talk to a person" via chat, or by naturally requesting it in reply to Neo's email.

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