Is this the Sentinel-2A Orbit number?

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#1

Hello all, as we know , Landsat8 has the orbit number path and row. eg: P118,R:38(somewhere is china)

But when I read the handbook,I find that the orbit number is only the ‘‘R***’’.As I show above, marked in red rectangle . Is the the Sentinel-2A orbit number ? Or I forgot some details ?
Thank you !

#2

Hi Yang,

The ‘R’ is for Relative; the Relative Orbit (in the range (001-143) is the number of the Orbit within a complete Cycle. The actual Orbit number (or the Absolute Orbit number - i.e. the number of the Orbit since launch) can be found in the Granule filename, located in the GRANULE folder within the product.

S2A_OPER_PRD_MSIL1C_PDMC_20160801T120024_R006V20160617T071622_20160617T074322.SAFE
│ ├── AUX_DATA
│ ├── DATASTRIP
│ │ └── S2A_OPER_MSI_L1C_DS_SGS__20160617T124334_S20160617T074322_N02.04
│ │ ├── QI_DATA
│ │ └── S2A_OPER_MTD_L1C_DS_SGS__20160617T124334_S20160617T074322.xml
│ ├── GRANULE
│ │ ├── S2A_OPER_MSI_L1C_TL_SGS__20160617T124334A005151_T37KCA_N02.04

More information can be found in the Sentinel-2 Product Specifications Document (PSD)

I hope this helps

Cheers

Jan

S2 MPC Operations Manager

#3

Thank you very much for your help.

Best wishes.

Yang