Defra and JNCC Sentinel-2 Analysis Ready Data (ARD)

These data have been created by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) in order to cost-effectively provide high quality, Analysis Ready Data (ARD) for a wide range of applications. The dataset contains modified Copernicus Sentinel-2 (Level 1C data processed into a surface reflectance product (Level 2)). Defra and JNCC data were processed on separate platforms using a common specification to produce complementary outputs up to and including the acquisition date 23/06/2023. Data acquired after that date were processed on a single platform to the same specification.

The majority of data captured between July 2015 and August 2017 was processed by Aberystwyth University for Defra and later updated by JNCC to the same specification as the rest of this dataset. Please see the image-level metadata for details of data lineage and processing.

The Sentinel-2 ARD filename format was changed in April 2023. Filenames of data acquired on or after 01/04/2023 include the timestamp of data generation and display image latitude and longitude to a consistent number of significant figures preceded by ‘n’ (North) and ‘e/w’ (East / West). Filenames of data acquired before this date do not include the data generation timestamp and display latitude and longitude to varying significant figures not preceded by ‘n’ and ‘e/w’.

Date (Publication): 2020-03-30T11:16:01

Date (Creation): 2020-03-30T11:16:01

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bf9568b558204b81803eeebcc7f529ef

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / bf9568b558204b81803eeebcc7f529ef

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)	unknown	Author
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)	earthobs@jncc.gov.uk	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)	unknown	Principal investigator
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)	unknown	Principal investigator
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)	earthobs@jncc.gov.uk	Principal investigator
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)	earthobs@jncc.gov.uk	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)	support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

Analysis Ready Data
Sentinel
Surface Reflectance
ARD

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2015-07-08T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
These data are provided in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format. Each product comes with valid pixel, topographic shadow, saturated pixel and cloud masks and metadata files

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bf9568b558204b81803eeebcc7f529ef	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/sentinel_ard/data/sentinel_2/	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.arcsi.remotesensing.info/	ARCSI

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://gdal.org/	GDAL

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://hub.jncc.gov.uk/assets/dcb14a5e-301f-40ae-94c3-22b73fb4ec57	JNCC ‘Simple ARD Service’ User Guide

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://stac.ceda.ac.uk/collections/sentinel2_ard	Sentinel 2 ARD STAC catalogue

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).

Metadata

File identifier: bf9568b558204b81803eeebcc7f529ef XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-05T03:20:18

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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