New article analysing the Sentinel-2 UTM tiling grid and its spatial overhead

The article illuminates the nature of spatial overlaps in the Sentinel-2 UTM tiling grid and calculates the resulting spatial redundancy

Title: Wasting petabytes: A survey of the Sentinel-2 UTM tiling grid and its spatial overhead, opens an external URL in a new window

Authors: Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger and Konstantin Falkner

Highlights:

  • We scrutinise the geometry of zones and tiles of the Sentinel-2 UTM tiling grid.
  • UTM-MGRS’s grid-inherent overlaps inflate global land remote sensing datasets by 33%.
  • E.g. yearly Sentinel-2 Level-1C/-2A product volume is increased from 3 to 4 petabytes.
  • Data increase scales up hardware/energy costs, from dissemination to user application.