Sentinel-2 Grid Explorer

Interactive map for browsing the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) tile footprints. Search by tile ID, click or shift-drag to select tiles, then share a link or export your selection as GeoJSON or CSV.

About this tool

Sentinel-2 is a wide-swath, high-resolution, multi-spectral Earth observation mission operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of the Copernicus programme. Its optical imagery is delivered in 100 km × 100 km granules indexed using the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS), where each tile has a unique alphanumeric identifier such as 50HMH or 01CCV.

This explorer helps Earth observation analysts, remote sensing researchers, and GIS users plan acquisitions and prepare datasets. You can:

Locate any Sentinel-2 MGRS tile visually on an interactive Leaflet map
Search for tiles by their MGRS identifier
Build a multi-tile area-of-interest by clicking individual tiles or shift-dragging a rectangle
Hover over tile footprints to highlight them on the map
Export the selected footprints as GeoJSON or CSV for use in QGIS, ArcGIS, geopandas, rasterio, or any downstream geospatial pipeline
Copy a plain list of tile names for use in scripts
Share a selection with colleagues via a permalink URL

Source code, issue tracking, and documentation are available on GitHub.