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"## Previewing Downloaded Files\n", "## Previewing Downloaded Files\n",
"\n", "\n",
"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." "It contains code to deal with compressed or uncompressed products."
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