Filter earthaccess data with cloud coverage

[chabourque]

Hello,
I am using earthaccess.search_data to access HLS L30 & S30 data. I am working with a large area over a large period of time, meaning lots of data. I'd like to further filter my search to remove images with 30% cloud coverage to reduce the images I have to download. How can I do that?

[mfisher87]

You can do this with the cloud_cover argument to search_data():

earthaccess.search_data(short_name="HLSS30",cloud_cover=(0,30))

https://earthaccess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-reference/granules/granules-query/#earthaccess.search.DataGranules.cloud_cover

[mfisher87]

@chabourque did this work for you? If so, can you select "Mark as answer"; otherwise, is there anything else we can do to support your work?

[chabourque]

Yes, it worked, thank you!

[mfisher87]

Amazing! 🥳 Thanks for your post :)

[Kongstad]

Thanks for this! I was struggling to find this answer anywhere else and was close to conclude there was no filter option.
I would kindly suggest that you put it in the python tutorial example!

Thank you

[mfisher87]

Any time. Thank you for the suggestion! I opened a ticket to document that work here: #474

If you have any more ideas on how we can improve this documentation, we'd love to hear them over in that ticket :)