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sentinel-3-olci-2-lfr-nrt·dataset

Vegetation and land color products, fast delivery (Copernicus)

Sentinel-3 OLCI Land Full Resolution (NRT)
biosphere ESA ESA Copernicus active
In plain English

What it measures. Ready-to-use land measurements including vegetation greenness, chlorophyll, and water vapor, at 300-meter detail across the globe.

How it's made. Made by ESA Copernicus from the Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Color Instrument, processed to Level-2 land products in near-real-time.

How & where you'd use it. Supports timely tracking of plant health, growing seasons, and drought conditions over land.

What's measured

300mBiomassCopernicusECESAEUGlobalLandOLCIOL_2_LFR____PT3HSatelliteSentinelSentinel-3

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2016-04-25 → ongoing
  • Spatial extent-180, -90, 180, 90

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

This collection provides Sentinel-3 OLCI Level-2 Land Full Resolution products containing data on global vegetation, chlorophyll, and water vapor.

Get the data

copernicus_access.py
# ESA Copernicus Data Space — open STAC API (free account)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/v1")
search = cat.search(
    collections=["sentinel-3-olci-2-lfr-nrt"],   # add _cog or _nc for a format variant
    bbox=(-10, 35, 30, 60),             # your area (W,S,E,N)
    datetime="2024-01-01/2024-12-31",
)
items = list(search.items())            # then read assets with rioxarray / xarray
Browsing the Copernicus STAC is open; downloading bytes needs a free Copernicus Data Space account.