Storage Clients

Tilebox does not host the actual open data satellite products but instead relies on publicly accessible storage providers for data access. Instead Tilebox ingests available metadata as datasets to enable high performance querying and structured access of the data as xarray.Dataset.

Below is a list of the storage providers currently supported by Tilebox.

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Copernicus Data Space

The Copernicus Data Space is an open ecosystem that provides free instant access to data and services from the Copernicus Sentinel missions. Check out the ASF Open Data datasets that are available in Tilebox.

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Access Copernicus data

To download data products from the Copernicus Data Space after querying them via the Tilebox API, you need to create an account and then generate S3 credentials here.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to query and download Copernicus data using the Tilebox Python SDK.

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Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF)

The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) is a NASA-funded research center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Check out the ASF Open Data datasets that are available in Tilebox.

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Accessing ASF Data

You can query ASF metadata without needing an account, as Tilebox has indexed and ingested the relevant metadata. To access and download the actual satellite products, you will need an ASF account.

You can create an ASF account in the ASF Vertex Search Tool.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to query and download ASF data using the Tilebox Python SDK.

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Further Reading

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Umbra Space

Umbra satellites provide high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from space. Check out the Umbra datasets that are available in Tilebox.

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Accessing Umbra data

You don’t need an account to access Umbra data. All data is provided under a Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0), allowing you to freely use it.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to query and download Copernicus data using the Tilebox Python SDK.