Get relative orbits for a given UTM tile?

[gbrelstaff]

Is there an algorithm or a public resource for discovering the Sentinel-2 relative orbits that pass through a given UTM 100km tile?

I know if I query a hub enough I can eventually discover the answer - but I have a use case where it would be useful to know ahead of time.

[marpet]

There are two threads regarding this:

• How to determine the Sentinel-2(AB) relative orbit? - s2tbx - STEP Forum (esa.int)
• Sentinel-2 Swath identifiers? - s2tbx - STEP Forum (esa.int)

There are also obit predictors available.

• www.orbitalpredictor.com/home/
• OrbTrack | real time satellite orbit tracking and prediction

[Jan]

Hello @gbrelstaff

A cocktail of the Relative Orbit KML
https://sentinel.esa.int/documents/247904/685211/S2A_rel_orbit_groundtrack_10Sec/57bcb79f-2696-4859-8292-07ac7166e884
and Tiling Parameters file (TILPAR)
https://sentinel.esa.int/documents/247904/1955685/S2A_OPER_GIP_TILPAR_MPC__20151209T095117_V20150622T000000_21000101T000000_B00.kml/ec05e22c-a2bc-4a13-9e84-02d5257b09a8

in Google Earth should help

Cheers

Jan

Jan Jackson

S2 MPC Operations Manager