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Key properties

• Full coverage of the planet surface up to the poles and including the oceans
• 100 percent cloud free
• Based on MODIS surface reflectance data for land areas and sea ice, Sentinel-3 water reflectance data for water areas, primarily from 2015-2019
• 250m/300m resolution on both land and water, processed at 250m resolution
• Depiction of the average vegetation maximum and snow/ice minimum appearance at any point on earth
• Sea ice rendering showing either the typical summer extent or maximum ice free water.
• Available as linear surface reflectance values as well as tone mapped and relief shaded images in any projection. Different shading variants available for the polar regions

Improvements of version 2

Compared to version 1 the version 2 mosaic offers the following improvements:

• Updated data basis from mostly 2015-2019.
• Globally uniform resolution of 250m/300m even on the open ocean.
• New data basis for the water offering higher quality and lower noise levels from very recent Sentinel-3 data.
• New processing technique for the polar regions offering higher quality rendering from a shorter time frame of data (2016 to 2019).
• Improved color accuracy, in particular for areas with no or little vegetation.
• Broadened data basis and improved processing offering lower noise levels in particular also in critical areas of the tropics.
• Additional rendering options and variants available:
  • Selective HDR tone mapping for better readability of the Antarctic. This is the default tone mapping, the previous globally uniform rendering can be produced on request.
  • Morning and afternoon shading available for the Antarctic and high latitude Arctic in addition to the standard shading minimized rendering.
  • Ocean rendering either with typical summer sea ice extent or with open water maximum.
  • Water only mosaic is also available on request.

Sample gallery