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Sentinel-2 L1C before 2017

  • April 17, 2024
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Dear all,

I tried downloading data from 2019 to 2015 in an AOI over Indonesia, which went well for all data until 2016 and earlier. I noticed, that ESA changed the naming convention and after browsing through the s3 bucket of s2-l1c products, trying to find the corresponding image, I noticed a difference in the names.
One of the products I’m interested in, is

S2A_MSIL1C_20161112T033842_N0204_R118_T48MUC_20161112T033837

From the old naming convention this should translate to

S2A_OPER_PRD_MSIL1C_PDMC_yyyymmddThhmmss_R118_V20161112T033842_20161112T033842

The creation date (yyyymmddThhmmss) is the only thing I cannot convey from the name given by ESA, thus I have 7 possible Images to download in the s3 bucket.

My question would be, if there is a way to get the creation date without downloading and manually checking every image. This is because there are 49 further images, which are missing for me

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Hi, there may be a smarter way to do this so don’t take this as the best answer, but if you needed a brute force approach, you could look at the S3 Inventory and look for the items that match your pattern, that would get you the object names within the bucket.


I found a solution for me:

The ESA provides an archive of .csv entries for the renamed products. It is available under this adress: https://scihub.copernicus.eu/s2l1creformatted/


Thanks for your answer! I’ve thought about it and if there is no better way, then I’ll use this approach.