L2A products shown in EO Browser but not found on official Hub?

s2tbx
#1

I know these are difficult times but …
How come the EO Browser is showing the Sentinel-2 L2A product for the last 10 days?
– while they are still not available from the official Hub https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home

For example (accessed 29-05-2020)
This is visible:

while searching with the same criteria
32TMK AND ( beginPosition:[2020-05-18T00:00:00.000Z TO 2020-05-29T23:59:59.999Z] AND endPosition:[2020-05-18T00:00:00.000Z TO 2020-05-29T23:59:59.999Z] ) AND ( (platformname:Sentinel-2 AND producttype:S2MSI2A))

gives No products found.

(NB: the L1C equivalent search (producttype:S2MSI1C) returns the 5 products as expected)

#2

Dear User,

Please be informed that the right way to search on SciHub is as follow:

*T32TMK* AND ( beginPosition:[2020-05-18T00:00:00.000Z TO 2020-05-29T23:59:59.999Z] AND endPosition:[2020-05-18T00:00:00.000Z TO 2020-05-29T23:59:59.999Z] ) AND ( (platformname:Sentinel-2 AND producttype:S2MSI2A))

Best regards,
Fabrizio

#3

Hi Fabrizio

but I beg to differ - using *T32TMK* produces an error message:

Invalid request
Your request cannot be processed by the server. Please check the request’s parameters.

In any case, as I noted, the 32TMK search is fine - since it produces results for L1C during those same dates.

Update

Okay Fabrizio, I’ve done some testing using curl - as discussed here
https://scihub.copernicus.eu/twiki/do/view/SciHubUserGuide/BatchScripting#Query_via_cURL
This is my bug report:

  1. Search works for Sentinel-2 L1C using combining Boolean Tile-ids combinations
    e.g (32TML OR 32TNL OR 32TMK OR 32TNK OR 32SMJ OR 32SNJ) AND ...

  2. Search fails for L2A for the same combination or even just one tile-id e.g. 32TML AND ...

  3. Search works for Sentinel-2 L2A for a single tile-id is it is wrapped in *T...* as you suggest - e.g, *T32TML* AND ... but it is very slow.

  4. Search fails for Sentinel-2 L2A using a Boolean OR on two wrapped tile-ids
    e.g (*T32TML* OR *T32TNL*) AND ... This actual reports Java Apache/Tomcat crashing after a v. long wait.

As a result, I have to stick with the less obvious footprint polygons for the L2A products.
Shame there is no consistent easy way to search by grouped tile-id at SciHub.
CNES/Peps wins on this point but it has occasional missing products.
Can’t win!

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