bhoonidhi-downloader 0.1.1.dev1

Command line tool for searching and downloading satellite data from Bhoonidhi

Bhoonidhi Downloader

A Python CLI tool for searching and downloading satellite imagery from Bhoonidhi.

Installation

pip install bhoonidhi-downloader

Usage

Basic usage:

Authenticate:

bhoonidhi-downloader authenticate <username> --password <password>

Search Scenes using Bounding Box Coordinates:

bhoonidhi-downloader search <minx> <maxx> <miny> <maxy> <start_date> <end_date> <satellite> <sensor>

Example - downloading a Sentinel-2A MSI scene from from December 2023 for Shillong, Meghalaya:

bhoonidhi-downloader search 91.77 92 25.496 25.695 2023-12-01 2023-12-30 Sentinel-2A MSI

For more information, use the --help option:

Features

• Search for openly available satellite scenes from Bhoonidhi portal based on bounding box coordinates, date range, and satellite/sensor
• View search results in tabular format with metadata and quicklook images
• Select a scene to download from the search results

Limitations

• Supports only bounding box-based search for scenes.
  • Future support for search based on point coordinates and shapefile is planned.
• Supports only scenes with direct download links
• Supports only Medium resolution scenes from Optical Satellite Sensors.
  • Planning to add support for other sensors in future.
• Direct downloads only work for images from recent past - upto a year or so depending on the area and sensor. To download scenes dated ealier than that, using the Bhoonidhi Portal is recommended.
  • Planning to add support for interacting with carts by way of viewing, adding, deleting items in future. This will help with downloading older scenes.