Sentinel-2 MSI User Guide - Product Types

Sentinel-2 MSI User Guide - Product Types

SENTINEL-2 products available for Users are listed in Tables 1 and 2.

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

 

The continuous acquisition of SENTINEL-2 image data in a given MSI mode is called a "datatake". The maximum length of an imaging datatake is 15,000 km (e.g. continuous observation from northern Russia to southern Africa). All products contain granules/tiles from a single datatake. A datatake is presented inside a product as a set of one or more datastrips (corresponding to acquisition segments downlinked to different ground stations).

The products are elementary granules of fixed size, within 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 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 110x110 km² 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 (see Figure 1).

Figure 1: Level-1C product tiling

Tiles can be fully or partially covered by image data. Partially covered tiles correspond to those at the edge or top/bottom of the Datastrip.

Download the Sentinel-2 tiling grid kml.

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