Sentinel-2 Spectral Indices

Overview

Imagery is served by the Microsoft Planetary Computer, which hosts the full Sentinel-2 archive as cloud-optimised files. Choose a date range and cloud limit, pick a scene, and switch between indices and colour composites. Area statistics return the mean, spread and histogram of the index inside your rectangle.

Change mode places a baseline scene beside a recent one and reports the difference in each index, for desertification, wetland loss or urban growth studies.

What you enter · What you get

How it works in the field

Method and equations

Who uses it

Standards and references

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7. Microsoft Planetary Computer, planetarycomputer.microsoft.com.