Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters.

[4] The mission supports services and applications such as agricultural monitoring, emergencies management, land cover classification, and water quality.

Within the 13 bands, the 10 m (33 ft) spatial resolution allows for continued collaboration with the SPOT-5 and Landsat-8 missions, with the core focus being land classification.

[14] These temporal offsets can be used to gain additional information, for example to track propagating natural and human-made features such as clouds, airplanes or ocean waves[17][18] Sentinel-2 serves a wide range of applications related to Earth's land and coastal water.

Satellite images will be used to determine various plant indices such as leaf area chlorophyll and water content indexes.

Images of floods, volcanic eruptions [19] and landslides contribute to disaster mapping and help humanitarian relief efforts.