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"## Previewing Downloaded Files\n",
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"There is a function that, given a resolution and the band name, returns the correct file paths to use with the `rasterio` library.\n",
"The largest share of the product size is made up by `*.jp2` files, which are raster images which contain geocoded spectral band information at a fixed resolution.\n",
"Data on each spectral band captured by the Sentinel-2 mission is distributed on a per-file basis, which is why most of these files contain data on a single channel only.\n",
"An exception is the included True-Color Image, which contains data in red, green and blue channels.\n",
"There is a function that, given a resolution and one or more spectral band name, returns the correct file paths.\n",
"It contains code to deal with compressed or uncompressed products."
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