S2a Acquisition Prediction

[con20or]

I don’t suppose there is any plans for adding a tool that lets you predict S2a satellite overpass in the toolbox?

Something similar to the Landsat 8 Acquisition Calendar

http://landsat.usgs.gov/tools_L8_acquisition_calendar.php

[Jan]

@con20or
Hi Conor,

A weekly KML for the forthcoming Acquistion Period is available here:

https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-2/acquisition-plans

This can be run in GE at the same time as the Tiling Grid KML:

https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/documents/247904/1955685/S2A_OPER_GIP_TILPAR_MPC__20151209T095117_V20150622T000000_21000101T000000_B00.kml/ec05e22c-a2bc-4a13-9e84-02d5257b09a8

Enabling a visualisation of the coincidence of overpass with your AOI.

Cheers

Jan

S2 MPC Operations Manager

[con20or]

Thanks Jan,

I’m trying to match a survey in July with an overpass. Using those kmls i can see that the strip ID is 4267-2, tile Id is 29UPV and one date was 16-04-2016

If I increment that by 10 day periods will I reliably be able to predict the July dates or is there something else i am not considering.

[glemoine]

You can check how consistently your granule was covered until now and “extrapolate” that to July. Looks like you’re lucky, because there is more than one orbit covering 29UPV.

E.g. for March, there were these:

http://sentinel-s2-l1c.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/#tiles/29/U/PV/2016/3/

Probably some are only slivers at the edge of a scene.

[con20or]

Brilliant, thanks for the help.

[unnic]

A simple tool like the L8 Acquisition Calendar would be very useful.

[bheliom]

A bit old question, but anyone browsing can find a potential solution in my answer in another topic here:

Sentinel 2 acquisition calendar

You can get information about future acquisitions over an area through https://spectator.earth either APP or the API. It parses most up to date acquisition plan available for Sentinel-2. No calendar view though, just a timeline. Acquisition plan for Sentinel-2 has a longer time span than the one for Landsat-8, so you’ll be able to predict the future a bit more. S2 plan covers 10-15 days while Landsat-8 is around 3 days at most.

[Jan]

You can also get the Acquistion Plan through the ‘normal’ channels.
https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-2/acquisition-plans.
This has been the case since 2015.

Cheers

Jan

[bheliom]

Absolutely. This tool only parses these plans to quickly get information about acquisitions for AOI in a similar way to Landsat calendar which was the original question.