Cloudferro’s repository contains nearly 67 Pb of EO data. So far, there wasn’t any service providing
easy access to data basing on OGC standards. For the past year, there was put work on creating a
WebMapService (WMS), specifically for European satellite missions - Sentinel -2 and Sentinel-1. In
result, company developed a vast OGC services, based on analysis ready original Sentinel data stored
in Cloudferro’s repository, which serves as a official ESA storage. Although the services are here, there
is also a need for a tool enabling users to use those services.
This paper presents the tool, which uses those services and works as a framework for potential users
in form of a QGIS plugin. Although web services are based on OGC standards and this allows majority
of GIS software establish connection with them, it’s still unintuitive to build and use raw URL request.
QGIS plugin provides a simple GUI to construct all necessary requests in a simple and fast way. Thanks
to that, users can start work with EO data in a simple and comfortable manner. This plugin not only
serves as a display tool, but also provide functions for analysis and download of Sentinel-1 and
Sentinel-2 images thanks to WebCoverageService (WCS). On the other hand, thanks to usage of
Virtual Rasters (VRT), displayed data can be analysed on demand i.e.: mask all clouds in Sentinel-2
true colour images.
The biggest advantage of this solution is an easy access to original, not processed Sentinel data,
which are obtained every day. Since plugin can provide both display and download capabilities, this
tool seems perfect for small processing tasks done by students on vast universities. By this, those
students could easily get in touch with Sentinel data and enlarge European EO community.