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GSC Sentinel-2 PDGS OCD - Emits - ESA

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<strong>GSC</strong> <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2 <strong>PDGS</strong> <strong>OCD</strong><br />

Issue 1 Revision 2 (draft) - 25.07.2010<br />

GMES-GSEG-EOPG-TN-09-0008<br />

page 338 of 350<br />

Figure A-6 below depicts the age of the LANDSAT scenes downloaded (in years).<br />

Figure A-6 L1T Product age Downloads<br />

LANDSAT images are delivered in one TAR compressed file (180MB), with all the 9 bands<br />

included. Each band file is terrain corrected (L1T) in GEO-TIFF format. Currently, two are the<br />

LANDSAT platforms flying, LANDSAT 5, launched in 1984 and LANDSAT 7 in orbit since<br />

1999.<br />

The first one is able only to perform real time imaging without onboard recording, while<br />

LANDSAT 7 every day collect almost 300 scenes regularly available to the users within 24<br />

hours of the acquisition.<br />

Based on the LANDSAT experience, it is anticipated that the total amount of <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2 data<br />

requested, thanks to its open access policy, will be quite comparable with the one currently<br />

observed at USGS.<br />

<strong>Sentinel</strong>-2 images (290x290 km) are 2.5 times greater in terms of on-ground coverage and 25<br />

times larger in terms of data volume.<br />

A first estimate of 400TBytes per year is considered for <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2 by extrapolating that the<br />

coverage of an area of (100x100 km) with all <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2 bands will weight about 0.4 GBytes;<br />

multiplying this by one million of scenes, which is the LANDSAT actual demand, leads to<br />

400TBytes.<br />

To limit the downloaded volume, a global tiling with a tile size of (100km x 100km) is<br />

highlighted as a good compromise. In addition, a mechanism allowing band sub-setting is<br />

underlined as an interesting trade-off, considering that the most requested channels will be<br />

likely the four visible ones (representing about half of the volume) which should help reducing<br />

the download budget.<br />

Compared to current requirements expressed though the DAP (cf. section A.4), these<br />

extrapolated volumes are 100 times greater.<br />

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