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Sentinel-2 L1C

Coming later Sentinel-2 top-of-atmosphere reflectance, before atmospheric correction. Unlike Level-2A it includes B10, the 1,375 nm cirrus band, and it has no scene classification layer.

Schema v1 defines this collection, but lean v1 does not serve it yet. Requests for it answer 404 unknown-collection. GET /v1/collections will list it once it is live.

Collection id sentinel-2-l1c
Aliases S2L1C (Sentinel Hub legacy id), sentinel-2-l1c (Earth Search v1), SENTINEL2_L1C (CDSE openEO), COPERNICUS/S2_HARMONIZED (Google Earth Engine)
Platforms sentinel-2a, sentinel-2b, sentinel-2c
Expected time span 2015-06-27 to ongoing
Resolution 10 m, 20 m, 60 m
Units REFLECTANCE, DN
Tile zoom 9 to 15
Planned source sentinel-2-l1c in https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1
Build plan Phase P4
Band Common name Centre (µm) Resolution
B01 coastal 0.4427 60 m
B02 blue 0.4927 10 m
B03 green 0.5599 10 m
B04 red 0.6646 10 m
B05 rededge071 0.7041 20 m
B06 rededge075 0.7405 20 m
B07 rededge078 0.7828 20 m
B08 nir 0.8328 10 m
B8A nir08 0.8647 20 m
B09 nir09 0.9451 60 m
B10 cirrus 1.3735 60 m
B11 swir16 1.6137 20 m
B12 swir22 2.2024 20 m
  • Same satellites, revisit, swath and MGRS tiles as Level-2A.
  • The source files are JPEG 2000 in eu-central-1 rather than cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs, so tiles start at zoom 9.
  • The time span is what schema v1 expects. The live collection document will publish the extent measured from the index.
  • Phases refer to the build plan; see the Data overview.

Reference: ESA SentiWiki on Sentinel-2 products.