# Sentinel-2 L2A (Surface Reflectance)
*data products*

## Specifications
- **level**: L2A
- **distributor**: esa
- **spectral range nm**: {"min":443,"max":2202}
- **spectral band count**: 13
- **gsd m**: {"native":10,"resampled":60}
- **file format**: JPEG2000 (SAFE container)
- **access endpoint**: https://dataspace.copernicus.eu
- **access model**: open
- **licence**: Copernicus Open Access (free, full, open)
- **primary data portal url**: https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu
- **stac endpoint url**: https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu
- **use cases**: ["Vegetation monitoring (NDVI, EVI)","Land cover classification","Surface water mapping","Snow cover monitoring"]
- **practical limitations**: ["Cloud cover masks limit usable acquisitions in equatorial and high-latitude winter scenes","5-day revisit insufficient for sub-daily phenomena"]
- **known artefacts**: ["Sen2Cor scene classification confuses thin cirrus with bright bare soil in some scenes"]
- **last verified date**: "2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z"
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-verified
- **deployment context**: orbital

## Compositional position
- sentinel-2a (missions) --[data_products_from_missions]--> Sentinel-2 L2A (Surface Reflectance)

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Source: https://eo-atlas.org/data_products/sentinel-2-l2a
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