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sentinel-3-olci-2-lrr-nrt·dataset

Coarse vegetation and land products, fast delivery (Copernicus)

Sentinel-3 OLCI Land Reduced Resolution (NRT)
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In plain English

What it measures. Land measurements of vegetation, chlorophyll, and water vapor at a broader roughly 1.2-km resolution, covering large areas quickly.

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

How & where you'd use it. Handy for continent- and global-scale vegetation and drought monitoring where speed matters more than fine detail.

What's measured

1200mBiomassCopernicusECESAEUGlobalLandOLCIOL_2_LRR____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 Reduced 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-lrr-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.