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Sen2Cor

Sen2Cor is a stand-alone processor for Sentinel-2 Level 2A product generation and formatting.

Available

Sen2Cor is available in Puhti with following versions:

  • 2.10 (pre-release)
  • 2.9

Usage

Sen2Cor is included in the sen2cor module and can be loaded with

module load sen2cor

You run the program with the command

L2A_Process <arguments>

More information on the available arguments can be displayed with

L2A_Process --help

or from the Sen2Cor user manual.

Advanced usage

Further configuration of L2A_Process can be done via the L2A_GIPP.xml file. After running L2A_Process for the first time, you can find the default GIPP file in your $HOME/sen2cor/2.10/cfg directory. Here you can adjust it to your needs using any editor and add it to the call: L2A_Process --GIP_L2A $HOME/sen2cor/2.10/cfg/L2A_GIPP.xml <other arguments> .

License

Sen2Cor is published under the GPL-3 license.

Citation

M. Main-Knorn, B. Pflug, J. Louis, V. Debaecker, U. Müller-Wilm, F. Gascon, "Sen2Cor for Sentinel-2", Proc. SPIE 10427, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXIII, 1042704 (2017)

Acknowledgement

Please acknowledge CSC and Geoportti in your publications, it is important for project continuation and funding reports. As an example, you can write "The authors wish to thank CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland (urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072531) and the Open Geospatial Information Infrastructure for Research (Geoportti, urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072513) for computational resources and support".

Installation

Sen2cor was installed on Puhti using ESAs standalone Sen2cor installer for Linux.

References


Last update: August 2, 2023