Release notes - Sentinel Application Platform - S2TBX-9.0.0

Main features

Windowed Reading of Products - Generalizing Parameters for Reader Plugins in Graph Builder

Allows specifying in Graph Builder, for read operation, a window (spatial subset) of either pixel coordinates or geographical coordinates, so that, the reader will read directly the region of interest as a full-fledged product.

Support for New External Data Access Sources via Product Library

New remote data source modules are added to SNAP as plugins addressing the following remote repositories:
* EOCAT ESA collections
* FEDEO ESA collections
Also, several improvements added:
* download queue for offline products
* sequential download for query result pages (in order to improve the results waiting time)
* query authentication for remote data sources requiring authentication

Update the GDAL version to 3.2.1

The GDAL version is updated from 3.0.0 to 3.2.1.
Also, a plugin for COG writer is added. Corrections made for visual artifacts noticed in produced images when writing in parallel, from multiple threads.
Allow setting which installed GDAL distribution is used by SNAP (when the user desires to use and installed distribution instead of the internal one, and there are several GDAL versions installed).

New plugin adapter for Sen2Cor 2.9

New plugin adapter for Sen2Cor 2.9 is added in SNAP menu.

Plugin adapter for MAJA

New plugin adapter for MAJA 4.5.3 is added in SNAP menu.

Solved operators whose UI was not well functioning in Graph Builder

Updates made for operators: Reflectance to Radiance, Spectral Angle Mapper, Multi-size Mosaic, GeFolki Co-registration.

List of solved issues

Bug

SIITBX-487 Band description still uses reflectance after processing

SIITBX-434 GenericRegionMerging creates empty output in GB and GPT

SIITBX-435 GDAL - error writing bands having data type int16

SIITBX-436 GDAL writer - visual artifacts in produced images when writing in parallel, from multiple threads

SSIITBX-438 Some GeoTIFFs written with GDAL cannot be opened with SNAP GeoTIFF reader implementation

SNAP-1427 JP2 reader - inconsistency between Int16 and UInt16

SIITBX-444 Missing resources Biophysical processing and update output tolerance

SIITBX-453 Biophysical Processor S2 (not S2_10m) not accessible from the gpt builder

New Feature

STEP-18 Plugin Repository

STEP-36 Add cookies notice on STEP website

STEP-37 GDPR compliance for STEP forum

STEP-44 Generalizing Parameters for Reader Plugins - Graph Builder

STEP-47 STEP website new look and feel

SIITBX-446 SNAP adapter plugin for Sen2Cor 2.9

SNAP-1395 Product Library: support ESA collections

SIITBX-277 Add maximum size option in S2TBX cache

SIITBX-442 Third Party Sentinel-2 Products: Landsat processed by ESA, Landsat L2

Improvement

SIITBX-437 Update GDAL version used in SNAP to 3.2.1

SIITBX-441 Pleiades reader - ability to read pan-sharpened products (with 4 PMS bands)

SIITBX-448 CCI LandCover Data - location changed

SIITBX-457 Invalid path exception at loading native libraries from installed GDAL when multiple GDAL versions are installed

SNAP-1359 Product Library database should allow multiple connections

SNAP-1384 Product Library - Scientific Data Hub : add relative orbit number in search results for SAR sensors

SNAP-1385 Product Library - Alaska Satellite Facility : add relative orbit number in search results for SAR sensors

SNAP-1400 JP2 reader - GML metadata for EPSG:4326

SNAP-1405 Product Library - Amazon Web Services - S2 "requester pays" bucket

SNAP-1410 Product Library - USGS : response format changed

SNAP-1411 Product Library - Scientific Data Hub : Too Many Requests

SNAP-1435 Product Library - Scientific Data Hub : API URL changed

SNAP-1436 JP2 reader - use shorter file names for decompressed tiles

SIITBX-357 Add Missing ECMWF data in Sentinel-2 MSI products

Task

STEP-9 Support for plugin developers

STEP-46 STEP Forum - increase storage

SIITBX-410 Check operators whose GUIs are not working in GraphBuilder