# sentinelsat/sentinelsat

Search and download Copernicus Sentinel satellite images

Repository: https://github.com/sentinelsat/sentinelsat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sentinelsat
Homepage: https://sentinelsat.readthedocs.io
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: sentinel, copernicus, esa, remote-sensing, satellite-imagery, geographic-data, open-data, hacktoberfest
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-10-02T09:22:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4121, "days_push": 700, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1020, forks 246 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:15.515872+00:00)

## What it is
A Python library and CLI tool for searching, downloading, and retrieving metadata of Copernicus Sentinel satellite images from data hubs. Its primary target, the Copernicus Open Access Hub, has been permanently closed, so it currently only works with alternative DHuS-based data hubs.

## Use cases
- search and download Sentinel satellite images
- query satellite imagery by geographic footprint and cloud cover
- retrieve metadata for Sentinel products via Python API
- bulk download Sentinel-2 scenes for an area of interest
- script satellite data acquisition for remote sensing workflows

## When to choose
- you need to search or download Sentinel data from a DHuS-based data hub or national mirror
- you want a simple Python API or CLI for satellite product queries with GeoJSON footprints

## When to avoid
- you need to download from the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE), which Sentinelsat does not support
- you need a currently maintained tool for the official Copernicus distribution system

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, cli, search-engine
- domain: -
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: sentinel, copernicus, esa, satellite-imagery, remote-sensing, gis, data-download, geojson, geospatial, open-data

## Member repositories
- sentinelsat/sentinelsat (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:15.515872+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:09:19.384474+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sentinelsat/sentinelsat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:15.515872+00:00, sha dc8d2f7ca020)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/sentinelsat/json (fetched 2026-08-29T13:09:54.775138+00:00, sha 5dbc99d46fe9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.