Downloading Data

Open datasets can be downloaded from the catalogue to be used locally or imported into third-party software. Commercial data can be downloaded, once an order has been placed, from the My Data area. More information on this can be found here. Following the steps below for commercial data collections will allow you to download a thumbnail of the image, at a lower resolution and quality compared to the image product, to carry out a visual assessment before purchasing the data.

To download open data from the Resource Catalogue, first select the scene you want to download, by browsing and filtering the left hand panel to search.

Click on the (i) button on the bottom right of the card. This opens up the metadata panel.

Select Assets. This tab details the files that are associated with that scene. For example, Sentinel 2 scenes contain different files such as cloud, cloud probability, or topographic shadow.

Expand the asset you are interested in by clicking on it, and select Download. You can download any of the assets for a given scene. Depending on the collection you selected, different file types may be available.

Most open data collections contain at least one common image file type, such as GeoTIFF or NetCDF files. Some collections come as Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF (cog) files when downloaded, which are another image file type containing the data for the scene itself.