Where can I get Sentinel-2 data?

You can obtain Sentinel 2 data from the ESA and from the USGS. Users must register for free access to data at either site. Currently ESA distributes Sentinel 2 data in entire swaths.

Is Sentinel-2 data free?

All Sentinel-2 data products are provided free of charge to all data users, including the general public, and scientific and commercial users under the terms and conditions prescribed by the European Commission’s Copernicus Programme.

What can I monitor with Sentinel-2?

As well as monitoring plant growth, Sentinel-2 can be used to map changes in land cover and to monitor the world’s forests. It also provides information on pollution in lakes and coastal waters. Images of floods, volcanic eruptions and landslides contribute to disaster mapping and help humanitarian relief efforts.

How do I view Sentinel-2 photos?

Users can access the imagery from Sentinel-2 on AWS , or alternatively access Sentinel2Look Viewer, EarthExplorer or the Copernicus Open Access Hub to download the scenes. For information on Sentinel-2 imagery, see Sentinel-2.

How do you cite Sentinel 2 data?

Hello. What is the correct way to cite Sentinel 2 data on an image in a report? Copernicus Sentinel data [year of data acquisition]. Retrieved from ASF DAAC [day month year of data access], processed by ESA.

Is Sentinel-5P data free?

Copernicus Sentinel-5P data is available to all, free of charge on the Sentinel-5P Pre-Operations Data Hub. In addition, its orbit and heat maps as well as other data products can be visually monitored on the Tropomi Portal.

How many bands does Sentinel 2 have?

13 spectral bands
SENTINEL-2 carries an optical instrument payload that samples 13 spectral bands: four bands at 10 m, six bands at 20 m and three bands at 60 m spatial resolution.

Does Sentinel-2 have thermal band?

Sentinel 2 has not consist of any thermal band while Landsat-8 have it (band 10 and 11). ASTER is also consist of the 5 Thermal bands (resolution is of 90 meters and resampled upto 15 meters).

What bands does Sentinel-2 have?

Sentinel-2 carries the Multispectral Imager (MSI)….Sentinel 2 Bands

Its blue (B2), green (B3), red (B4), and near-infrared (B8) channels have a 10-meter resolution.
Next, its red edge (B5), near-infrared NIR (B6, B7 and B8A) and short-wave infrared SWIR (B11 and B12) have a ground sampling distance of 20 meters.

What are sentinel data?

Overview. The Sentinel-2 mission has the following key characteristics: Multi-spectral data with 13 bands in the visible, near infrared, and short wave infrared part of the spectrum. Systematic global coverage of land surfaces from 56° S to 84° N, coastal waters, and all of the Mediterranean Sea.

How do you get Copernicus data?

Copernicus Services Data is available through the web portals operated by the various Copernicus service lines: Land-related data: http://land.copernicus.eu.

How do you cite SRTM data?

If you wish to cite the SRTM products in a report or publication please use: Farr, T. G., and M. Kobrick, 2000, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission produces a wealth of data.

What can I do with the Sentinel 2 data?

The additional metadata files can be used with the Sentinel-2 Toolbox, an open source toolbox developed for the European Space Agency (ESA). This toolbox includes visualisation, analysis, and processing tools for Sentinel-2 data. To help locate data of interest, an index CSV file of the sentinel-2 data is available.

What does level 1C mean on Sentinel 2?

These Sentinel-2 images are processed to Level-1C, which means they are orthorectified, map-projected images containing top-of-atmosphere reflectance data. See the Sentinel-2 User Guide for general information about Sentinel-2 and the Sentinel-2 Level-1C Technical Guide for additional details.

Where can I find the USGS Sentinel 2 collection?

EarthExplorer, USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis), or the Sentinel2Look Viewer can be used to search, preview, and download Sentinel-2 data. The collection is located under the Sentinel category in EarthExplorer. The current USGS Sentinel-2 archive is only a partial representation of all available acquisitions from ESA.

Where can I get MSI Sentinel 2 imagery?

MSI Sentinel-2 high spatial resolution imagery and data from Copernicus are served from CoastWatch for coastal US regions in near real time as the data become available. JPEG and TIF images as well as zipped Level 1C data are available.

Where can I get Sentinel-2 data?