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== Sentinel-2 cloud masking ==
 
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The exclusion of clouds and cloud shadow is an important processing step which is usually done in an early preprocessing stage.
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The Sentinel-2 products are annotated with Quality Indicators (QI_DATA).In the Level 2A product you may find a file in the folder '''QI_DATA''' with the extension '''_CLD_20m.jp2''' which might be used for masking clouds. 
  
  
 
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Sentinel-2 cloud masking

The exclusion of clouds and cloud shadow is an important processing step which is usually done in an early preprocessing stage. The Sentinel-2 products are annotated with Quality Indicators (QI_DATA).In the Level 2A product you may find a file in the folder QI_DATA with the extension _CLD_20m.jp2 which might be used for masking clouds.

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