# SAFE -- Sentinel-1 SAFE XML Product

Driver for Sentinel products. Currently supports only Sentinel-1 SAR products. See also the GDAL Sentinel-2 driver

SENTINEL data products are distributed using a SENTINEL-specific variation of the Standard Archive Format for Europe (SAFE) format specification. The SAFE format has been designed to act as a common format for archiving and conveying data within ESA Earth Observation archiving facilities.

The SAFE driver will be used if the manifest.safe or the containing directory is selected, and it can treat all the imagery as one consistent dataset.

The SAFE driver also reads geolocation grid points from the metadata and represents them as GCPs on the dataset.

ESA will be distributing other satellite datasets in this format; however, at this time this driver only supports specific Sentinel-1 SAR products. All other will be ignored, or result in various runtime errors.

## Multiple measurements

If the product contains multiple measurements (for example multiple polarizations), each one is available as a raster band

## Data Calibration

Currently the driver does not apply calibration information.

## See Also:

- SAR Formats (ESA Sentinel Online)
- SAFE Specification (ESA Sentinel Online)
- GDAL Sentinel-2 driver