How Can I Get S2A Scene Classification for Sentinel-2?

You can get information from the scene classification layer produced by Sen2Cor, for data where S2A is available. Data can be retrieved by identifier “SCL” (e.g. instead of return [B02]; for blue color one can use return [SCL/10];).

Data can be then used for e.g. validation of the pixel value, e.g. along the lines:

var scl = SCL;

if (scl == 0) { // No Data

return [0, 0, 0]; // black

} else if (scl == 1) { // Saturated / Defective

return [1, 0, 0.016]; // red

} else if (scl == 2) { // Dark Area Pixels

return [0.525, 0.525, 0.525]; // gray

} else if (scl == 3) { // Cloud Shadows

return [0.467, 0.298, 0.043]; // brown

} else if (scl == 4) { // Vegetation

return [0.063, 0.827, 0.176]; // green

} else if (scl == 5) { // Bare Soils

return [1, 1, 0.325]; // yellow

} else if (scl == 6) { // Water

return [0, 0, 1]; // blue

} else if (scl == 7) { // Clouds low probability / Unclassified

return [0.506, 0.506, 0.506]; // medium gray

} else if (scl == 8) { // Clouds medium probability

return [0.753, 0.753, 0.753]; // light gray

} else if (scl == 9) { // Clouds high probability

return [0.949, 0.949, 0.949]; // very light gray

} else if (scl == 10) { // Cirrus

return [0.733, 0.773, 0.925]; // light blue/purple

} else if (scl == 11) { // Snow / Ice

return [0.325, 1, 0.980]; // cyan

} else { // should never happen

return [0,0,0];

}

Note that it makes sense to use this layer only on full resolution as any interpolation based on classification code list will not produce reasonable results. You should also use the NEAREST upsampling/downsampling setting, which you can find in “Advanced layer editor”.

Also please note that this map does not constitute a land cover classification map in a strict sense, its main purpose is to be used internally in Sen2Cor in the atmospheric correction module to distinguish between cloudy pixels, clear pixels and water pixels.

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