List Of Band Combinations For Sentinel 2

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Hi,

Is there a list of band combinations for Sentinel 2 available?

I am looking for something similar to the list below of Landsat 8 band combinations.

I have looked in the user guide and tutorial and can’t see any list.

Many thanks
Marc

Landsat 8 band combinations :
Natural Color 4 3 2
False Color (urban) 7 6 4
Color Infrared (vegetation) 5 4 3
Agriculture 6 5 2
Atmospheric Penetration 7 6 5
Healthy Vegetation 5 6 2
Land/Water 5 6 4
Natural With Atmospheric Removal 7 5 3
Shortwave Infrared 7 5 4
Vegetation Analysis 6 5 4

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I will provide you spectral wavelength. The interpretation of band combination is yours to define regarding the application. You can follow the Landsat 8 band if the wavelength is the corresponding one.

Page 57: Sentinel 2 Products specs

Hope it helps.

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Thank you for your assistance

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When you open an RGB composite from a S2 product, you are proposed with two choices : natural colors (4-3-2) and false color infrared (8-4-3). We may add more combinations to match some L8 combinations when this makes sense.

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Added in the issue tracker : https://senbox.atlassian.net/browse/SIITBX-180

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Also very useful to adopt common L8/L7 band combinations:

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I will provide you spectral wavelength. The interpretation of band combination is yours to define regarding the application. You can follow the Landsat 8 band if the wavelength is the corresponding one.

Page 44: Sentinel 2 Products specs

Hope it helps. *June 2017

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Band combinations for Sentinel-2. They can be found in SNAP menu, the RGB composite is as follows:

Natural Colors: 4 3 2
False color Infrared: 8 4 3
False color Urban: 12 11 4
Agriculture: 11 8 2
Atmospheric penetration: 12 11 8a
Healthy vegetation: 8 11 2
Land/Water: 8 11 4
Natural Colors with Atmospheric Removal: 12 8 3
Shortwave Infrared: 12 8 4
Vegetation Analysis: 11 8 4

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Hello @Suprd ,

The link you provided to the {PSD} is to a previous version. The curent release is 14.2. There are some minor amendments in the increment:

  • Table 4-9 has been updated for new management of Complete Single Tile inside Query_options tag.
  • All references to the land/water mask have been removed

The PSD can be found in the Document Library at https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/user-guides/sentinel-2-msi/document-library

Cheers

Jan

S2 MPC/CC Operations Manager

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but these are band combinations of Landsat 8 what are the band combinations for sentinel 2

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They are just two posts above yours.

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Since it wasn’t mentioned yet:

In the “Index DataBase” you find over 200 indices related to Sentinel-2:

http://www.indexdatabase.de/db/s-single.php?id=96

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@neteler Could you please tell me what are the letters a, b, y etc. on some indices’ formula?

Thank you in advance

Edit: Never mind, I have found it, for those who don’t know, just click at the index link and there is a row for the variables