
Xarray-sentinel: Open source library to easily explore and access the Sentinel data products
Project reference period: 2021 - on going
Open Source (sponsored by B-Open)
Project Description
The aim of xarray-sentinel is to enable interferometric processing of Sentinel-1 SAR IW and SM images with Xarray and Dask and provide support for other Sentinel products in the longer term.
The development is sponsored by B-Open and led by our own Aureliana Barghini with help from Corrado Avolio and Alessandro Amici.
The latest developpements and releases can be followed through the GitHub repository: https://github.com/bopen/xarray-sentinel
The current release is Alpha but maturing very rapidly.
Current features are:
* supports Sentinel-1 IW and EW SLC products
* returns orbit, attitude and GCPs metadata
* installs with `pip install xarray-sentinel`
* full dask support
* will integrate with xarray 0.18+ adding `engine=”sentinel-1″`
The future development roadmap includes:
* Sentinel-1: support for all flavours of Level-1 products
* Sentinel-2: support for Level-1 and 2 products
* access to advanced metadata for calibration, deramp, etc.
* conda package
B-Open’s Role
B-Open is developing, maintaining and sponsoring at 100% the development of the xarray-sentinel library.