EnMAP-Box Documentation

The EnMAP-Box is Python plugin for QGIS, to process, visualize and analyze multi and hyperspectral remote sensing data.

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Fig. 1 Graphical user interface of the EnMAP-Box

Visit our overview on EnMAP-Box features and get going with the Installation and Getting Started chapters. Have a look at the Cookbook for usage examples!

News

Upcoming Events

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14th EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy

2.-5. June 2026

Helsinki Metropolitan area, Finland

Tutorial day 5. June Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) tutorials

45th EARSeL Symposium

  1. Sep - 02. June 2026

Athens, Greece

Presentation

FOSSGIS 2026

02. Apr 2026

The FOSSGIS Conference, the leading German-language conference for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for GIS and Open Street Map , took place in Göttingen, Germany, from March 25–28, 2026.

A highlight of the program was a dedicated 45-minute demo session showcasing the EnMAP-Box. Attendees were given a practical look into how hyperspectral EnMAP and multispectral Sentinel-2 data can be visualized together with measurements made by field spectrometers. The session provided valuable insights into the latest features of the EnMAP-Box and its integration within the QGIS environment.

UNOOSA / CEOS Training

02. Apr 2026

As part of the UNOOSA/UNU-INWEH/CEOS Training on EO for Resilience and Humanitarian Aid (March 23–27, 2026, Vienna), the EnMAP-Box was presented in a hands-on session. The session EO Data Visualization and Analysis with EnMAP-Box: Land Cover and Crop Type Mapping Using Sentinel-2, (March 26) introduced participants to fundamental functionality and workflows for analyzing multispectral and hyperspectral satellite data using the EnMAP-Box.

EnMAP Webinar

07. Feb 2026

On 29th and 30th January 2025 two EnMAP Webinars informed the user community about the EnMAP mission, EnMAP Applications and the commercialisation potential of EnMAP. Examples of scientific applications, online education materials (HyperEDU) and other EnMAP funded projects were presented. Participants learned how they can task EnMAP-observations and get data access to archives observations, as well how to visualize and analyse the using the EnMAP-Box The webinars had a high resonance with >130 international participants online each day.

Release EnMAP-Box 3.17

17. Nov 2025

We are in the process of releasing EnMAP Box 3.17. A first preview is already available for download as an experimental plugin. Further updates will follow.

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Big Data From Space 2025

3. Nov 2025

On October 2, the EnMAP-Box was presented in a live demo at ESA Big Data From Space (BiDS) 2025 conference in Riga, Latvia.

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Workshop Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Agriculture

16. Sep 2025

On 10. September, the EnMAP-Box was presented in a Hand-on tutorial on the Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Agriculture: Workshop on Advanced Earth Observation, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Applications. The workshop was organized by the ZALF in Müncheberg, Germany. The participants learned how to use the EnMAP-Box to visualize hyper- and multispectral raster data together with spectral profiles from field measurements.

Living Planet Symposium 2025

09. July 2025

At the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna, Austria (22–27 July), participants had the opportunity to explore the capabilities of the EnMAP-Box. They engaged with us through a tutorial session and by visiting the latest EnMAP-Box poster: We enjoyed connecting with many EnMAP-Box users in person. It was especially exciting to see the high interest for our brand-new EnMAP-Box stickers!

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2nd EnMAP User Workshop

14. April 2025

The 2nd EnMAP User Workshop took place from April 2-4, 2025 in in Munich. Here, the EnMAP-Box was presented, and participants could join an Introduction to the EnMAP-Box workshop.

EnMAP Webinar

31. January 2025

More than 100 participants joined the EnMAP - Webinar on the application and Commercialisation potential in which the EnMAP-Box was demonstrated as well.

New tutorial: EnMAP-Box in High Performance Computing environments

January 2024

We just published our newest application tutorial “EnMAP-Box in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments”

The tutorial shows how you can:

  • install the EnMAP-Box on Linux servers

  • start and use QGIS/EnMAP-Box on HPC systems

  • process data using QGIS processing algorithms and processing models, that you may have been previously created with the QGIS Model Designer

  • use the SLURM workload manager to schedule, run and monitor processing jobs

Hyperspectral 2024 / WICSIS

November 2024

The EnMAP-Box was presented at the 3rd Workshop on International Cooperation in Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy (WICSIS, 13.-15. September) at ESA-ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands. The workshop participants got the opportunity to visit a training day on September 12th, on which they learned how to access EnMAP data and how to use the EnMAP-Box.

Here is the newest EnMAP-Box poster:

EnMAP-Box poster

QGIS User Conference 2024

September 2024

From September 9-10, the QGIS User Conference 2024 (https://uc2024.qgis.sk/) took place in the beautiful city of Bratislava, Slovakia. The EnMAP box was also presented there with the talk Beyond the NDVI: Hyperspectral remote sensing in QGIS with the EnMAP Box.

13th EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy

April 2024

The EnMAP-Box will be presented at the 13th EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy from 16.-18. April 2024 in València.

Don’t miss:

  • What’s New in the EnMAP-Box? Visualization and Analysis of EnMAP Data for Everyone (Wed 17.04. 16:00-17:15, Session 2-11, ADAIT Room 1.1-1.2)

  • Towards Informed Default Parametrizations of Machine Learning Algorithms for Biophysical Variable Retrieval in the EnMAP-Box (Wed 17.04. 10:30-12:00, Session 2-4, ADAIT Assembly hall)

  • Deep Learning based Semantic Segmentation for EnMAP-Box (Thu 18.04. 12:00-13:00, Poster Session, ADAIT Room 0.1)

  • EnMAP-Box Tutorial https://is.earsel.org/workshop/13-IS-Valencia2024/enmap-box/ (Fri 19.04. Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) of the University of Valencia)

FOSSGIS 2024 Hamburg

March 2024

On 23. March the EnMAP-Box was presented at FOSSGIS 2024 in Hamburg, Germany: https://pretalx.com/fossgis2024/talk/RPUBQR/

QGIS UC 2024 and QGIS Open Day

May 2023

Following the QGIS User and Developer Meeting 2023 in s’Hertogenbosh, Netherlands (https://uc2023.qgis.nl/), Kartoza <https://kartoza.com/> asked us if we can repeat our presentation on Imaging spectroscopy data in QGIS: Challenges and Opportunities for the the QGIS Open Day. Here is the recording:

FOSSGIS 2023 Berlin

March 2023

The EnMAP-Box will be present at the FOSSGIS with a demosession: Visualisierung und Analyse von Satellitenbildern mit der EnMAP-Box (https://pretalx.com/fossgis2023/talk/9WAMJ9/)

Looking forward meeting you there!

UPDATE - Here is the recording of the presentation:


EnMAP-Box Version 3.11 released

Oct. 10, 2022

A new EnMAP-Box version has been released. A list of all improvements can be found in the changelog.

EnMAP-Box Version 3.10 released

June 09, 2022

A new EnMAP-Box version has been released. A list of all improvements can be found in the changelog.

EnMAP-Box Version 3.9 released

Oct. 10, 2021

A new EnMAP-Box version has been released. A list of all improvements can be found in the changelog.

EnMAP-Box Workshop 2021

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June 07, 2021

The next EnMAP-Box workshop will be held online on 21-23 June, 2021. The workshop aims to demonstrate the current state of the EnMAP-Box by way of presentations, live demos with Q&A and self-paced tutorials. Registration for up to 250 participants is now open at the workshop website.

FOSSGIS 2021 Rapperswil

June 09, 2021

Benjamin Jakimow presented how to use Spectral Libraries in QGIS using the EnMAP-Box (german).


EnMAP-Box Version 3.7 released

Oct. 27, 2020

A new EnMAP-Box version has been released. It includes product readers for EnMAP L1B, L2C and L2A, PRISMA L2D and DESIS L2A images, and a first version of Spectral Math in the QGIS Expression Builder. A list of all improvements can be found in the changelog.

FOSSGIS 2020

Andreas Rabe presented the EnMAP-Box at the FOSSGIS 2020 in Freiburg. See the full live-demo session here (german):


QGIS User Conference 2019

Two Presentations by EnMAP-Box developers Andreas Rabe and Benjamin Jakimow at the QGIS User conference in Coruña




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User Section

Developer Section

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