Evaluation of Spatiotemporal Fusion Methods Using Sentinel-2 And Sentinel-3: A New Benchmark Dataset And Comparison

In Earth observation, data fusion is important to generate high temporal and spatial resolution images. Nevertheless, existing research on data fusion primarily concentrates on merging two sources of data (mostly MODIS and Landsat). Therefore, we offer the community a new benchmark dataset for evaluating data fusion using new European sensors (Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3).

The dataset is composed of three different sites located in different parts of the world to ensure the diversity of the ecosystem. The two components of the dataset are collected from operating missions ( Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3). We also provide 10 bands for Sentinel-2 ranging from blue to SWIR, 4 bands at 10m resolution and 6 at 20m resolution. For Sentinel-3 16 bands are provided with a spatial resolution of 300m. The multiple bands allow for different applications for this dataset such as testing data fusion methods, etc.