Product Library Tool

Product Library Tool

The Product Library Tool allows the user to search for products on a certain repository using specific filters to retrieve the product list. Each repository has its own filters and some of them are mandatory.

The products may be searched in terms of mission, satellite, product type and acquisition date. They may also be searched by graphically drawing an area of interest on the world map.

• remote repository
• local repository

Remote repository

In order to access the products stored on a remote repository an authentication is required. In this case the user must define an account for that repository in the application.

Remote repository accounts

In order to add an account for a remote repository, access the 'Tools -> Options' menu and in the dialog window select the 'General -> Product Library' tab.

• auto-uncompress of compressed products after download
• download all pages of search results
• the number of entries on results page

Search products on remote repository

The remote products may be searched using some mission specific parameters (filters).
The mandatory parameters for doing search operation by pressing search button     are:

• Satellite
• Start Date
• End Date
• Area of Interest (AOI)
• Username and Password when the remote repository uses another authentication for query, and not uses the download credentials.

Note: The credentials used as search parameters will be saved securely on the Product Library config file for later usage (will be prefilled), when the search operation succeeds.

• browse to the next page by pressing next button    
• browse to the previous page by pressing back button    
• browse to the last page by pressing last button    
• browse to the first page by pressing first button    
• sort the results on the page by the following criteria:
  • Product Name
  • Mission
  • Acquisition Date
  • File Size
• see the attributes by pressing expand button:    
• Download the product
• Joint Search Criteria (a new search is performed considering the selected product footprint as AOI and a time interval [product acquisition date - 7 days, product acquisition date + 7 days]
• see the products distribution on timeline (either by day when possible, either by month)

Download products from remote repository

The remote products may be downloaded into a local folder.

To download products press the mouse right button on the selected products and select the Download option. Then select the local folder used to save the products. After downloading a product into a local folder, the product can be opened in the application.

Some remote repositories may produce the product on the fly, to download, so the download process will start after some time, when the product is ready to be downloaded. The Product Library will try to download the product from time to time, at some interval (initially 10 seconds and increase by 10 seconds on every try), and the status of downloading product will appear as 'queued' until the actual download is done.

Local repository

The local folder selected to download the remote product represents a local repository. The user may add/remove a local repository, refresh the product list from the local folders according to the saved metadata from the database.

• add new local repository
• remove a local repository
• remove all local repositories
• refresh the product list from the local folders according to the saved metadata from the database
• search on local repository using the following parameters
  • Folder
  • Mission
  • Start Date
  • End Date
  • Sensor
  • Attributes
  • Area of Interest (AOI)
• sort the search results on the page by the following criteria:
  • Product Name
  • Mission
  • Acquisition Date
  • File Size
• operate by means of a popup menu displayed after pressing the mouse right button on a selected product(s)
  • open products in the application
  • delete products from the database
  • process the products in the Batch Processing dialog
    
    
    
    The dialog processes the selected local products by means of a graph in order to create new products according to the graph content.
  • show the local folder containing that product

Note: The view of Area of Interest (AOI) can be changed by pressing the mouse right button on the map.