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08.SNAP - Introduction and News

SNAP is an open source software developed by ESA to process data from multiple Earth observation satellites. It was created in 2014 to process data from the Sentinel satellites. SNAP is built on 17 years of experience from previous ESA software like BEAM and NEST. It has a modular architecture that allows it to process data from Sentinels and other missions. The latest version, SNAP 7, added support for new sensors and improved existing capabilities. SNAP 8 is planned for 2020 and will introduce a new standardized I/O format and other enhancements.

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08.SNAP - Introduction and News

SNAP is an open source software developed by ESA to process data from multiple Earth observation satellites. It was created in 2014 to process data from the Sentinel satellites. SNAP is built on 17 years of experience from previous ESA software like BEAM and NEST. It has a modular architecture that allows it to process data from Sentinels and other missions. The latest version, SNAP 7, added support for new sensors and improved existing capabilities. SNAP 8 is planned for 2020 and will introduce a new standardized I/O format and other enhancements.

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SNAP

Introduction
and News
Tonio Fincke
Brockmann Consult
SNAP User Forum
September 10th, 2019

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History

• In early 2014, ESA kicked off the new toolbox development for the
upcoming Sentinel platforms
• The Toolboxes were to be developed on a common basis
• SNAP was created on the heritage of BEAM and NEST
• BEAM (est. 2002) was the standard toolbox for the optical sensors on the
Envisat platform
• NEST (est. 2008) was the standard ESA SAR toolbox and built on top of BEAM
• Therefore SNAP is built on 17 years of experience in EO software
development and EO data processing & analysis

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Project Organisation

• SNAP is the common software platform and


host for the Sentinel Toolboxes and others
• The SNAP core development is led and
organised by Brockmann Consult (Germany)
• The toolboxes for the Sentinel platforms are
run by
• SkyWatch (Canada) for Sentinel-1
• C-S (France, Romania) for Sentinel-2
• Brockmann Consult (Germany) for Sentinel-3

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SNAP & Toolboxes support multiple missions

Proba/CHRIS

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SNAP Architecture

Any combination of toolbox


add-ons is allowed, even
Sentinel-1 Toolbox (S1TBX) Sentinel-2 Toolbox (S2TBX) Sentinel-3 Toolbox (S3TBX) none, as SNAP Desktop is a
already a useful stand-alone
application for EO data
exploitation.

SNAP Desktop SNAP Engine


SNAP layer

NetBeans RCP NetCDF … 3rd-party library layer


GeoTools JAI

Java SE 8 Platform Python Programming language layer

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User involvement: Git, Forum & Issue Tracker

>5000 registered users


in the forum

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SNAP Downloads

>200000 unique downloads for


SNAP 6

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SNAP 7

• Release: July 22nd, 2019


• First Update: September 2nd, 2019

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SNAP 7: New Product Readers

• AATSR L1 data in SAFE format • Kompsat-5 in GeoTiff


• Sentinel-1 on AWS • Landsat L2
• RCM • Landsat ESA products
• Paz • Pleiades
• ICEYE • WorldView-2
• RISAT-1 • IKONOS
• ALOS-2 in GeoTiff • ALOS AVNIR2-PRISM
• Kompsat-2

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SNAP 7: New Operators

• S1TBX
• Deramp and Demodulation
• S2TBX
• Forest Cover Change
• Spectral Angle Mapper
• GeFolki Co-registration
• S3TBX
• OLCI PPE
• OLCI Harmonisation

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SNAP 7: Improved and Fixed Operators

• SNAP • S1TBX
• Collocate • Terrain Flattening
• Resample • Thermal Noise Filtering
• Merge • S2TBX
• Binning • Refl2Rad
• Subset
• S3TBX
• C2RCC

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SNAP 7: Extended Multi-Size Support
Export Mask Pixels Collocation

Magic Wand
BaseIndexOp

Subsets

Add Elevation Band

Copy Pixel Info


Export Transect Pixels

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SNAP 7: What else is new?

• Allow disabling access to remote auxiliary data


• Automatic orbit download via QC Rest API
• Calibration for RCM, Paz, ICEYE SLC, SLSTR L1B
• Simplified Smart Configurator
• Graphical User Interface for Remote Execution
• Virtual File System
• Added OTB bundle
• Removed question which SLSTR reader to use

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SNAP 7: What else is new?

• Improved testing
• Created tutorials
• Updated help entries
• Moved Idepixes to dedicated repository
• Improved Reader performances
• GeoTiff

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SNAP 8 – An outlook

• Release planned for winter 2020

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SNAP 8 – Upcoming Features

• New SNAP Standard-I/O Format


• Required due to
• Ever-increasing spatial resolution
• Problems in distributed processing (cloud storage)
• Stored in a single directory
• Individual files for
• Metadata
• Binary data
• Vector data
• Ancillary data

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SNAP 8 – New SNAP Standard-I/O Format

• Binary data stored in .zarr-format


• Zarr
• Originates from Python Library
• Data is compressed / Big Data Sizes are supported
• Metadata is stored in separate files

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SNAP 8 – Upcoming Features

• GPF-Enhancements
• Remodeling of framework
• Improve usage of GraphBuilder
• Improve Python integration
• Easier implementation of processors
• Support of multiple Python environments
• Help & tutorials
• Readers:
• Sentinel-2 products in AWS format
• ZIP support for Sentinel-3 readers

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SNAP 8 – Upcoming Features

• Export/import functionality between SNAP and PyRate SBAS InSAR


processing toolkit
• Eased installation of non-Java S2 / Optical Tools
• Change Detection Toolbox
• Enhancements of Biophysical Processor
• Access to online Geospatial Data

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SNAP 8 – And more ...

• Improve Performance
• Improve Multi-Size-support
• Improve User Interfaces
• More tests
• More tutorials

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