When wanting to download data from the USGS I’ve found that EarthExplorer is one of the easiest to use products and rapidly pulls together datasets that you might be interested in. At some point you’re likely to find yourself wanting to download multiple tiles of data - I was expecting this to be a straightforward task of just ticking the scenes you want and then download in one hit. This isn’t the case though… you either need to download scenes one at a time or opt to use the Bulk Download Application. If you do the latter you simply “tag” each scene you are interested in by clicking the “Add to Bulk Download” button and then, when you are done, click on “Item Basket” (top left). At this point you can change file format options before proceeding to the “checkout” (and you need to be logged in for all of this).
With that complete, you then start the Bulk Download Application on your PC, login and then any active downloads are listed which you can download. It all works quite efficiently, but seems quite convoluted. I also wish the results screen would allow you to load more than just 10 results at a time but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
