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Welcome to vresto

vresto is a professional Python toolkit for searching and accessing Copernicus Sentinel satellite data.

Key Features

  • 🗺️ Interactive Map Interface - Visually search and filter satellite products
  • 🔓 No Account Needed to Explore - Catalogue search, tile streaming and the coloured grid work anonymously; credentials are only needed to download
  • 🎯 Click-to-Stream - Click an MGRS grid tile to stream its true-colour image, from CDSE with S3 keys or from AWS Open Data without them
  • 🟦 Coverage at a Glance - Grid tiles are coloured by how many Sentinel-2 products per month cover them in your dates; zoomed out, whole MGRS grid zones are coloured
  • 🌍 13 Contextual Overlays - Land cover, terrain, vegetation, temperature, soil moisture, water and burned area
  • 🔎 Point Inspector - Click a streamed tile to read the exact value of a map overlay (land cover class, NDVI, temperature, ...)
  • 🔍 Smart Search - Filter by location, date range, cloud cover, and product type, via OData or STAC
  • 📦 Granular Downloads - Pick exact band/resolution pairs, plus quicklooks and metadata
  • 🐍 Professional API & CLI - Clean Python API and vresto-cli for automation
  • 🔐 Secure - Handle S3 credentials safely with static key support

Requirements

  • Python 3.11+
  • Optional: free Copernicus Dataspace account, needed to download products and to stream tiles from CDSE. Searching and streaming from AWS Open Data work without one
  • Optional: AWS CLI for direct S3 access

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