Sen2Europe (2021)

The Federal Office of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) has developed a procedure for the provision of remote sensing data based on requirements. Optical satellite image data is currently preferably used in the federal administration for further scientific production. The so-called mosaic process is an important method for this. The process was developed using EU-funded Sentinel-2 data from the European Earth Observation Initiative Copernicus and can be applied to any optical dataset (including aerial images). With this method, we provide a service through which optical remote sensing data can be processed professionally and on demand for every area on Earth. The Web Map Service (WMS) Sen2Europe enables users to integrate preprocessed and prepared remote sensing information from the Earth Observation Programme Copernicus (Sentinel-2, L1C-L2A), for Europe, in existing specialised procedures. The image data of the year 2021 were combined to form a mosaic, which has a floor resolution of 10 m. A composite of three bands (Sentinel-2 bands: 2, 3, 4 (R, G, B)) as well as information on the input image data are offered. The image data were subjected to a radiometric color compensation process in order to achieve a uniform appearance. For each mosaic, cloud cover over the entire area is less than 3 %. Using the request parameter TIME, a specific year status can be displayed here (e.g. Time=2018) (without TIME parameters the latest status is displayed). You can use the following URL of the free web service directly, e.g. in your Geo-Information System (GIS):https://sgx.geodatenzentrum.de/wms_sen2europe