Importing AWS downloaded Sentinel-2 data into SNAP software?

Question

I have downloaded Sentinel-2 L1C granules from AWS. I saved it as .SAFE format and now have for each tile downloaded as folder structure:

• AUX_DATA
• IMG_DATA
• QI_DATA

i would like to run some algorithms (atmospheric correction, biophysical procesor, etc.) with ESA's SNAP sowftware on these files.

As there is no .xml file downloaded from AWS, how can i import this file-structure into the SNAP software?

So far i can only select each band independently and load in SNAP as one product, but i would like all bands together as one product.

Answer 1

The Sentinel-2 L1C AWS bucket is populated by Sinergise, who also publish a Python library called sentinelhub-py that allows you to reconstruct the .SAFE format as expected by SNAP including the relevant XML files. The documentation also explains the differences between the original, compact and reconstructed formats.