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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B1-489-2016</article-id>
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<article-title>ASSESSMENT OF THE GEOMETRIC QUALITY OF SENTINEL-2 DATA</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pandžic</surname>
<given-names>M.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mihajlovic</surname>
<given-names>D.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pandžic</surname>
<given-names>J.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pfeifer</surname>
<given-names>N.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, University of Belgrade, Bul. kralja Aleksandra 73, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>TU Wien, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Gußhausstraße 27-29/E120.7, 1040 Vienna, Austria</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>03</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2016</year>
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<volume>XLI-B1</volume>
<fpage>489</fpage>
<lpage>494</lpage>
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<license license-type="open-access">
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<p>High resolution (10 m and 20 m) optical imagery satellite Sentinel-2 brings a new perspective to Earth observation. Its frequent
revisit time enables monitoring the Earth surface with high reliability. Since Sentinel-2 data is provided free of charge by the
European Space Agency, its mass use for variety of purposes is expected. Quality evaluation of Sentinel-2 data is thus necessary.
Quality analysis in this experiment is based on comparison of Sentinel-2 imagery with reference data (orthophoto). From the possible
set of features to compare (point features, texture lines, objects, etc.) line segments were chosen because visual analysis suggested
that scale differences matter least for these features. The experiment was thus designed to compare long line segments (e.g. airstrips,
roads, etc.) in both datasets as the most representative entities. Edge detection was applied to both images and corresponding edges
were manually selected. The statistical parameter which describes the geometrical relation between different images (and between
datasets in general) covering the same area is calculated as the distance between corresponding curves in two datasets. The
experiment was conducted for two different test sites, Austria and Serbia. From 21 lines with a total length of ca. 120 km the average
offset of 6.031 m (0.60 pixel of Sentinel-2) was obtained for Austria, whereas for Serbia the average offset of 12.720 m (1.27 pixel
of Sentinel-2) was obtained out of 10 lines with a total length of ca. 38 km.</p>
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