Wobble/misalignment issue when comparing Sentinel-2 images at different times

[gbrelstaff]

Until a mission (S2A or S2B) was declared “fully stabilised” by the Q/A process some slight spatial misalignments were to be expected - you have to fix them yourself.

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Sentinel-2 TCI_10m Level-2 images - slight spatial misregistrations

For Sentinel-2 Level-2 jp2 images I use gdal_translate to obtain ~ 256x256 jp2 sub-images (for each band) around my location of interest. But when I examine the resulting TCI_10m images as a time lapse in Irfanview I can see gross vertical shifts of 20 or 30m. For example between these two successive sub-images: T32SMJ_20180402T102021_TCI_10m.jp2 (48.7 KB) T32SMJ_20180404T101019_TCI_10m.jp2 (48.9 KB) Examining their respective image headers, I can see no obvious reflection in the xml whi…