How to browse and download products using Data Explorer on CopPhil
In this article, you will learn how to browse and download products using Data Explorer.
Prerequisites
No. 1 Access to Data Explorer
Data Explorer used in this article is available here: https://explore.infra.copphil.philsa.gov.ph/search
You don’t need to be logged in to search for products.
However, you need to be logged in if you want to be able to download products.
If needed, refer to this article:
How to register and login to Data Explorer on CopPhil cloud
No. 2 Submitted search query
Your search query must already be entered and submitted in the search panel. See How to search for products using Data Explorer on CopPhil
No. 3 Search results limited by Area of Interest (AOI)
You can further limit your search results by specifying an Area of Interest (AOI). With AOI, only the results that intersect with the provided area will be displayed. See How to register and login to Data Explorer on CopPhil cloud
No. 4 Overview of available satellite instrumentation and capabilities
Page EO Data Collection shows information about the following satellites: Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, Sentinel-5p and Sentinel-6.
In this article, we shall use only Sentinel-2:
What We Are Going To Cover
Browsing search results
Downloading products
Downloading a single product
Downloading multiple products
Browsing search results
We assume here that you’ve already followed Prerequisites No. 2 and/or No. 3 and that you are already seeing your list of search results.
To browse products from a particular mission, click Browse products within section corresponding to your chosen mission. If only one mission is checked, like here it would be Sentinel-2, only the relevant products would appear.
The results should appear:
Alternatively, you can use the Products tab to view results from all missions:
To view information about one of the results, click Product details next to it:
Apart from information such as product size or identifier, you should also see the polygon which indicates the geographical area of that product. In the example above, this area can be found in the right part of the screenshot, east of Algeciras.
Downloading products
You must be logged in to download products.
Downloading a single product
View Product details for a product you want to download. Click Download below that detailed description:
The process of downloading should begin - you should see the progress bar:
During this process, the file will not appear on the list of your downloaded files and in the place to which your browser safes them.
Only once the file is fully downloaded, Data Explorer will provide it to your browser as a downloaded file:
Downloading multiple products
When browsing search results, check the checkbox next to every product you want to download:
Click Download below these checkboxes:
The products should now be downloaded - one after another:
Once one of these files has been downloaded:
it should appear on the list of downloaded files of your Internet browser (in this example, we are using Firefox):
In the end, all files should be downloaded:
and they should be visible on the list of downloaded files of your Internet browser:
What To Do Next
Here is a practical example of downloading targeted data for Manila and using Data Explorer, see article Use CopPhil Data Explorer to find all Sentinel-3 Land Surface Temperature products over Manila in January 2024
For a similar example, but
executing Python code from
JupyterLab on CopPhil site and using
OData API calls
see Use CopPhil JupyterLab and Python to find all Sentinel 2 products over Manila in 2024