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Sentinel-2

Description

Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme by the European Space Agency providing Open Data for anybody to use. It's imaging satellites carry wide swath high-resolution multispectral sensors with 13 spectral bands and they systematically acquire optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters. The satellites were manufactured by a consortium led by Airbus Defence and Space.

Technical Information

ResolutionMedium resolution (10 m, 20 m)
Low resolution (60 m)
ConstellationSentinel-2A
Sentinel-2B
Sensor typeOptical
Spectral bands 10 mBlue 490 nm
Green 560 nm
Red 665 nm
NIR 842 nm
Spectral bands 20 mVegetation red edge 705 nm
Vegetation red edge 740 nm
Vegetation red edge 7838 nm
Narrow NIR 865 nm
SWIR 1610 nm
SWIR 2190 nm
Spectral bands 60 mCoastal aerosol 443
Water vapour 940 nm
SWIR - Cirrus 1375 nm
Acquisition modeMono
Geometric processing levelOrtho
File formatCOG GeoTIFF
Scene size110 x 110 km
Revisit frequencyFor the constellation - every 5 days
For each satellite - every 10 days
Catalog data availabilityEurope - from 2017
Globally - from 2018

Further information

For more information, please visit the technical documentation.

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