license: cc-by-4.0
tags:
- sentinel-2
- cloud-properties
- remote-sensing
- clouds
- clouds-decoded
Sentinel-2 Cloud Property Retrievals over the UK and India
Rendered per-scene quicklook layers of cloud optical and microphysical properties retrieved from Sentinel-2 (MSI) Level-1C imagery over eight tiles (four in the UK and four in India). These images power the interactive report at asterisk-labs-clouds-decoded-rain-check.static.hf.space. Cloud properties are estimated with the clouds-decoded retrieval code, developed as part of the clouds decoded project funded by ARIA.
Scope. Rendered PNG layers only.
Coverage
| Region | Tiles (MGRS) |
|---|---|
| UK | T29VMC, T30UVA, T31UDA, T31VDF |
| India | T42QYE, T43PDM, T44PNB, T45QWB |
~8,400 scenes spanning 2015–2026; each tile is ~110 × 110 km.
Layers
Each scene directory holds these per-scene PNGs:
| File | Description |
|---|---|
true_colour.png |
RGB true-colour composite |
cloud_mask.png |
cloud / clear mask |
cloud_height.png |
cloud-top height (m) |
ice_composite.png |
ice / phase composite |
properties_tau.png |
cloud optical thickness (τ) |
properties_r_eff_liq.png |
liquid effective radius (µm) |
properties_r_eff_ice.png |
ice effective radius (µm) |
properties_ice_liq_ratio.png |
ice / liquid ratio (thermodynamic phase) |
properties_uncertainty.png |
retrieval uncertainty |
overview.png |
combined multi-panel overview |
Layout
figures/<SCENE_ID>/<layer>.png
<SCENE_ID> is the Sentinel-2 L1C product identifier
(e.g. S2A_MSIL1C_20150712T111036_N0500_R137_T31UDA_20231010T005751), which
encodes the acquisition date, relative orbit and MGRS tile.
Retrieval & sources
Generated with the clouds-decoded processing chain applied to Sentinel-2 L1C.
- Sentinel-2 MSI L1C — Copernicus / ESA
License
CC-BY-4.0.