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"The function is mostly concerned with constructing the correct URL and ensuring that the response is returned as GeoJSON so it can be parsed by the `GeoPandas` library.\n",
"\n",
"A query returns a `GeoPandas` `GeoDataFrame` which contains a geometry and additional information that can be used to narrow down the area we are interested in:"
"A query returns a `GeoPandas` `GeoDataFrame` which contains a geometry and additional information that can be used to narrow down the area of interest in:"
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"## Defining a Request to the Copernicus Open Access Hub\n",
"\n",
"An API request additionally contains the time span for which to search for results - we might be interested in very recent images or in imagery over a long time span - and the maximum cloud coverage.\n",
"An API request additionally contains the time span in which to search for results - so especially recent imagery or imagery over a long time can be directly queried - and the maximum cloud coverage.\n",
"The maximum cloud coverage is needed because Sentinel-2 is equipped with optical instruments.\n",
"If there are too many clouds the products will not contain a lot of useful information."
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"## Selecting Products from the Result Set\n",
"\n",
"The criteria for selecting a product depends on the specific use case.\n",
"The first use case is to plot an image of Berlin, so want to make sure that as much of the city as possible is visible in the data we download.\n",
"The first use case is to plot an image of Berlin, so as much of the city as possible should be visible in the downloaded data.\n",
"\n",
"The list of products to a `GeoDataFrame` (`gdf`):"
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"Because products are large (roughly 1GB), it is desirable to skip unnecessary downloads whenever possible.\n",
"Products are therefore filtered by two criteria:\n",
"\n",
"- How much of the area of interest is visible in the product (i.e. area of the intersection of a product's tile and our area of interest)\n",
"- How much of the area of interest is visible in the product (i.e. area of the intersection of a product's tile and the area of interest)\n",
"- Cloud coverage (the less the better)"
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},