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Spectral Harbor QGIS 4 compatibility
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Yes — Spectral Harbor supports QGIS 4 (declared max version 4.99.0).
Download selected Sentinel-2A and Landsat 8/9 surface-reflectance bands via Element 84 Earth Search or Microsoft Planetary Computer in QGIS Processing.
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Spectral Harbor is a standalone QGIS 4 plugin for downloading selected surface-reflectance bands from Sentinel-2A Level-2A and Landsat 8/9 Collection 2 Level-2 through Element 84 Earth Search or Microsoft Planetary Computer using a shared scientific processing pipeline. Choose the imagery provider, satellite, area, dates, scene-cloud limit and bands. Create a single-scene image or a temporal median. Output pixels default to 10 m for Sentinel-2A and 30 m for Landsat; Sentinel bands with native 20/60 m resolution are resampled to the chosen grid. Spectral Harbor handles image reading, sensor-specific reflectance normalization, quality layers and temporal compositing in a separate processing task. It runs independently and does not require another QGIS plugin. Results are Float32 GeoTIFFs with -9999 nodata, native processing metadata, separated provider vs. shared performance diagnostics, and descriptive Float32 filenames (e.g. S2A_YYYYMMDD_<SceneID>_BOA_Float32.tif) that are loaded into QGIS with matching layer titles. Median runs also create the original count, standard-deviation and water-occurrence outputs. Existing water options follow the upstream single-scene/composite behavior. Developed by Mohamed Aly Nasef. License: GPL-3.0-or-later, with third-party notices included in the distribution. Satellite data and access services retain their separate terms. Official stable release; see the bundled guide, references, notices and validation report.
| Author | Mohamed Aly Nasef |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 106 |
| Latest version | 1.4.1 |
| Last updated | 2026-11-01 (11 days ago) |
| Min QGIS | 4.0.0 |
| Max QGIS | 4.99.0 |
| QGIS 4 ready | Yes |
| Maintenance | Active |
| Category | Remote sensing |
| Tags | sentinel-2, landsat, stac, surface reflectance, water, download, planetary computer, earth search |
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