OPERATIONAL PIPELINE FOR A GLOBAL CLOUD-FREE MOSAIC AND CLASSIFICATION OF SENTINEL-2 IMAGES
M. Swaine, Christiaan Coenraad Joubert Smit, S. Tripodi, G. Fonteix, Yuliya Tarabalka, Lionel Laurore, J. Hyland · The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences · 2020
Abstract. Global Earth observation from satellite images is an active research topic, driven by numerous applications, such as telecommunications, defence, natural hazard monitoring and urban management. The recently launched twin Sentinel-2 satellites acquire 13-band optical data with a 2–5 day revisit time, freely available for any use, and thus very valuable for global Earth observation. In this paper, we present a completely automatic operational chain for a global cloud-free mosaic and classification of Sentinel-2 images. The proposed pipeline enables producing the world 10-m cloud-free mosaic, and a 6-class landcover classification map.