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SoilSuite - Sentinel-2 - Europe, 5 year composite (2018-2022)

The SoilSuite contains a collection of different image data products that provide information about the spectral and statistical properties of European soils and other bare surfaces such as rocks. It is created using DLR's Soil Composite Mapping Processor (ScMAP), which utilises the Sentinel-2 data archive. SCMaP is a specialised processing chain for detecting and analysing bare soils/surfaces on a large (continental) scale. Bare surface and soil pixels are selected using a combined NDVI and NBR index (PVIR2) that optimises the exclusion of photosynthetically active and non-active vegetation. The index is calculated and applied for each individual pixel. All SoilSuite products are calculated based on the available Sentinel-2 scenes recorded between January 2018 and December 2022 in Europe. The data package excludes all scenes with a cloud cover of > 80 % and a sun elevation of < 20°. The spectral composite products are calculated from the mean value after extensive removal of clouds, haze and snow effects at both scene and pixel level. The spectral data products are available at a pixel size of 20 m and contain 10 Sentinel-2 bands (B02, B03, B04, B05, B06, B07, B08, B08a, B11, B12). The SoilSuite comprises: (a) “Bare Surface Reflectance Composite – Mean” that provides the spectral properties of soils that vary due to different soil organic carbon (SOC) content, soil moisture and soil minerology. This product is often used for spectral and digital soil mapping approaches, (b) “Bare Surface Reflectance Composite - Standard deviation” informing about the spectral dynamic of bare surfaces and soils, (c) “Bare Surface Reflectance Composite – 95% Confidence” contains information about the reliability of the spectral information due to the number of valid observations per pixel, (d) “Bare Surface Statistics Product” provides the number of bare soil occurrences over the total number of valid observations (Band 1), the number of bare soil occurrences (Band 2) and the total number of valid observations (Band 3), (e) “Mask” is a product that aggregates simple landcover classes that occur during the time period between 2018 - 2022 (Sentinel-2). The three-class Mask contains bare surface occurrences (1), permanent vegetation (2) and other surfaces such as water bodies, urban areas, roads (3). Additionally, the SoilSuite provides (f) “Reflectance Composite – Mean” that represents the mean reflectance of all valid Sentinel-2 observations between 2018 – 2022 including vegetation, bare and other surfaces, and (g) “Reflectance Composite – Standard deviation”, which contains the standard deviation per band for all valid Sentinel-2 observations between 2018 – 2022.

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Date (Creation)
2024-09-27T00:00:00
Citation identifier
https://geoservice.dlr.de/catalogue/srv/metadata/301c0949-d502-4a49-ba3d-cc7405240164
Presentation form
Digital map
Other citation details

DOI: 10.15489/qkud8cudg596

Status
Completed
Author
  German Aerospace Center (DLR) -
Author
  German Aerospace Center (DLR) -
Point of contact
  German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords
  • DLR

  • EOC

  • Land

  • SCMaP

  • Soil

  • Sentinel-2

  • Europe

  • Temporal Composites

  • Soil Coverage

  • Soil Composite Mapping Processor

  • Reflectance Composite

  • Surface Reflectance Composite

  • Bare Soil Coverage

  • Bare Soil Frequency

  • opendata

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Soil

Spatial scope
  • European
Use limitation

Nutzungseinschränkungen: Das DLR ist nicht haftbar für Schäden, die sich aus der Nutzung ergeben. / Use Limitations: DLR not liable for damage resulting from use.

Use limitation

Nutzungsbedingungen: License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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License

Use constraints
License
Use constraints
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Nutzungsbedingungen: License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Other constraints

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Denominator
40000
Language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Topic category
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Begin date
2018-03-01T00:00:00
End date
2022-12-31T23:59:59
Reference system identifier
EPSG / ETRS89 / LAEA Europe (EPSG:3035) / 8.6
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
240000
Resolution
20  m
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
220000
Resolution
20  m
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
No
Distribution format
OnLine resource
Scientific publication ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Scientific publication on the Soil Composite Mapping Processor (SCMaP)

OnLine resource
Scientific publication ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Scientific publication on Soil Reflectance Composites

OnLine resource
Scientific publication ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Scientific publication on continental bare surface reflectance composites

OnLine resource
EOC Download Service ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
EOC STAC Collection ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
https://geoservice.dlr.de/eoc/land/wms?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities ( OGC:WMS-http-get-capabilities )
OnLine resource
EOC Geoservice Dataset ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Data Description ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

SoilSuite Europe Data Description (pdf)

OnLine resource
SOILSUITE_MASK_EUR_P5Y ( OGC:WMS )

SoilSuite – Mask, Europe

OnLine resource
SOILSUITE_MREF-STD_EUR_P5Y ( OGC:WMS )

SoilSuite – Reflectance Composite – Standard deviation, Europe

OnLine resource
SOILSUITE_MREF_EUR_P5Y ( OGC:WMS )

SoilSuite – Reflectance Composite, Mean - Europe

OnLine resource
SOILSUITE_SFREQ-BSC_EUR_P5Y ( OGC:WMS )

SoilSuite – Bare surface count, Europe

OnLine resource
SOILSUITE_SFREQ-BSF_EUR_P5Y ( OGC:WMS )

SoilSuite – Bare surface frequency, Europe

OnLine resource
SOILSUITE_SFREQ-VPC_EUR_P5Y ( OGC:WMS )

SoilSuite – Valid pixel count, Europe

OnLine resource
SOILSUITE_SRC-CI95_EUR_P5Y ( OGC:WMS )

SoilSuite – Bare Surface Reflectance Composite – 95% Confidence, Europe

OnLine resource
SOILSUITE_SRC-STD_EUR_P5Y ( OGC:WMS )

SoilSuite – Bare Surface Reflectance Composite - Standard deviation, Europe

OnLine resource
SOILSUITE_SRC_EUR_P5Y ( OGC:WMS )

SoilSuite – Bare Surface Reflectance Composite – Mean, Europe

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification.

Pass
Yes
Statement

As input data, all Sentinel-2 images from March 2018 to December 2022 over larger Europe in L1C data format are used. All scenes with a cloud cover of larger than 80 % and a sun elevation of lower than 20° were excluded.

Description

The data has been transferred from L1C to L2A bottom of atmosphere reflectance (BOA) using the MAJA algorithm by considering the terrain correction. The resulting data stack is then reduced to 10 bands and resampled to 20 m pixel size using the bilinear resampling. For further information on the processing steps of the SoilSuite products, please see the linked publications.

Description

SCMaP is a specialised processing chain for detecting and analysing bare soils/surfaces on a large (continental) scale. Bare surface and soil pixels are selected using a combined NDVI and NBR index (PVIR2) that optimises the exclusion of photosynthetically active and non-active vegetation. The index is calculated and applied for each individual pixel. The spectral composite products are calculated from the mean value after extensive removal of clouds, haze and snow effects at both scene and pixel level. The spectral data products are available at a pixel size of 20 m and contain 10 Sentinel-2 bands (B02, B03, B04, B05, B06, B07, B08, B08a, B11, B12).

File identifier
301c0949-d502-4a49-ba3d-cc7405240164 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

Dataset

Date stamp
2025-10-16T09:07:16
Metadata standard name

19115-1:2014/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Point of contact
  German Aerospace Center (DLR)
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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