Data Products

Sentinel-2 Mission - Data Products

SENTINEL-2 products available for Users are listed in the product types tables.

Table 1: SENTINEL-2 product types
Type Code Description Users Production & Distribution
User Product Level-1B Top-Of-Atmosphere radiances in sensor geometry Expert Users Systematic generation and online distribution
Level-1C Top-of-atmosphere reflectances in cartographic geometry All Users Systematic generation and online distribution
Level-2A Atmospherically corrected Surface Reflectances in cartographic geometry

 

Additionally, the following pilot products are generated on-demand:

Table 2: SENTINEL-2 pilot product types
Type Code Description Users Production & Distribution
Pilot Products Level-2H Harmonised SENTINEL-2 + Landsat-8/9 surface reflectances in cartographic geometry All Users On-demand pilot productions
Level-2F Fused SENTINEL-2 + Landsat-8/9 surface reflectances in cartographic geometry

 

Products are a compilation of elementary granules of fixed size, along with a single orbit. A granule is the minimum indivisible partition of a product (containing all possible spectral bands).

For Level-1B granules are small images in sensor geometry sensed by each single of the twelve MSI detectors and are 23x25 Km2 large. For Level-1C and Level-2A, the granules, also called tiles, are 110x110 km2 ortho-images in UTM/WGS84 projection. Earth is subdivided on a predefined set of tiles, defined in UTM/WGS84 projection and using a 100 km step. However, each tile has a surface of 110x110km² in order to provide large overlap with the neighbouring.

The UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) system divides the Earth's surface into 60 zones. Each UTM zone has a vertical width of 6° of longitude and horizontal width of 8° of latitude.

Download the Sentinel-2 tiling grid kml.

Sentinel-2 data products

Figure 1: Graphical Representation of Sentinel-2 Core Products

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