Sentinel-2 L2A 120m Mosaic

Short description

Sentinel-2 L2A 120m mosaic is a derived product, which contains best pixel values for 10-daily periods, modelled by removing the cloudy pixels and then performing interpolation among remaining values. As clouds can be missed and as there are some parts of the world which have lengthy cloudy periods, clouds might be remaining in some parts. The actual modelling script is available here.

Band information

Sentinel-2 L2A 120m mosaic contains 12 Sentinel 2 L2A bands and 1 quality mask. Find more information about sentinel 2 L2A bands here.

Quality Mask

Value details

• 0: no data; areas where no valid observations have been found
• 1: interpolation passed; areas where the interpolation process successfully finished
• 2: artificially raised value; some/all bands' DN values here were raised from 0 to 1 so that these areas are not confused with NO_DATA areas
• 3: interpolation failed; usually this happens if it's detected that clouds are always present - the values is set to max of bands' values, which is 10000

Usage

All values larger than 0 are deemed as OK, so it is suggested to use the QM band in the following way for selecting valid areas: QM != 0

More information

Representative Images and Animations

World mosaic, using 2020 Sentinel-2 L2A data.


World mosaic 2020 animation on blue marble background with sea ice index information


World mosaic 2020 3D animation on blue marble background with sea ice index information

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