Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus programme of the European Space Agency. It provides free imagery acquired by the twin constellation Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B at a combined revisit rate of 5 days anywhere on the globe. The datasets are available starting with 2017. See more on the marketplace.
The geographic coverage is global.
| Specification | Description |
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| Collection type | Catalog |
| Product type | Optical |
| System type | Satellite |
| Specification | Description |
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| Spatial resolution | 10 m (medium)
20 m (medium)
60 m (low) |
| Bit depth per pixel | Acquired at 12-bit and converted to 16-bit in imagery products |
| Standard delivery | A ZIP file containing the following files:- Data (GeoTIFF)
- Metadata (GeoJSON, JSON, XML)
- Masks (GeoTIFF)
- Indexes (GeoTIFF)
- Visuals (GeoTIFF)
- Thumbnails (JPEG)
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| Specification | Description |
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| Acquisition mode | Mono |
| Orbit | Sun-synchronous, at 786 km |
| Catalog refresh rate | Every 5 days |
| Specification | Description |
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| Spectral band data | 10 m:- Band 2: 490 nm (blue)
- Band 3: 560 nm (green)
- Band 4: 665 nm (red)
- Band 8: 842 nm (near-infrared)
20 m:- Band 5: 705 nm (vegetation red edge)
- Band 6: 740 nm (vegetation red edge)
- Band 7: 783 nm (vegetation red edge)
- Band 8A: 865 nm (narrow near-infrared)
- Band 11: 1610 nm (short-wave infrared)
- Band 12: 2190 nm (short-wave infrared)
60 m:- Band 1: 443 nm (coastal aerosol)
- Band 9: 940 nm (water vapour)
- Band 10: 1375 nm (short-wave infrared + cirrus)
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| Specification | Description |
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| Coordinate reference system | UTM-WGS84 |
| Limitation | Value |
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| Input | AOI |
| Availability | Europe — from 2017
Globally — from 2018 |
| Output | 110×110 km scene |
| Description | Data product ID | Collection name |
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| Level 2A | c3de9ed8-f6e5-4bb5-a157-f6430ba756da | sentinel-2 |
