What are the bands of Sentinel 2?

What are the bands of Sentinel 2?

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 is the difference between Sentinel 2A and 2B?

Sentinel-2A was launched on 23 June 2015, while Sentinel-2B satellite was launched on 7 March 2017. When two sensors are operated simultaneously, the mission’s revisit time is about 5 days, while about 10 days with one satellite in operation.

What can I monitor with Sentinel 2?

SENTINEL-2 is a wide-swath, high-resolution, multi-spectral imaging mission, supporting Copernicus Land Monitoring studies, including the monitoring of vegetation, soil and water cover, as well as observation of inland waterways and coastal areas.

Does Sentinel 2 have a thermal band?

Sentinel 2 has not consist of any thermal band while Landsat-8 have it (band 10 and 11).

Is Sentinel-2 still operational?

Sentinel-2 has been developed and is being operated by the European Space Agency, and the satellites were manufactured by a consortium led by Airbus Defence and Space….Sentinel-2.

Specifications
Launched 2
Operational 2
Maiden launch Sentinel-2A 23 June 2015
Last launch Sentinel-2B 7 March 2017

How many bands are in the Sentinel-2?

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. The orbital swath width is 290 km.

How old is Sentinel-2?

The Sentinel-2A satellite was launched by ESA on June 23, 2015, and operates in a sun-synchronous orbit with a 10-day repeat cycle. A second identical satellite (Sentinel-2B) was launched March 7, 2017 and is operational with data acquisitions available on EarthExplorer.

What is Sentinel 2 mission?

SENTINEL-2. The objective of SENTINEL-2 is land monitoring, and the mission will be composed of two polar-orbiting satellites providing high-resolution optical imagery. Vegetation, soil and coastal areas are among the monitoring objectives. The first SENTINEL-2 satellite was launched in June 2015.

What is Copernicus Sentinel 2 mission?

The mission The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission is based on a constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit. Each satellite carries an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation.

How do the two Sentinel-2 satellites operate together?

To achieve frequent revisits and high mission availability, two identical Sentinel-2 satellites (Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B) operate together. The satellites are phased 180 degrees from each other on the same orbit. This allows for what would be a 10-day revisit cycle to be completed in 5 days.

What is the Sentinel Monitoring web application?

The Sentinel Monitoring web application offers an easy way to observe and analyse land changes based on archived Sentinel-2 data. The following two main products are generated by the mission: Level-1C: Top-of-atmosphere reflectances in cartographic geometry (combined UTM projection and WGS84 ellipsoid).