{"id":1583,"date":"2019-05-10T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2019-05-10T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T08:00:32","slug":"new-release-of-sen2cor-2-8-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/new-release-of-sen2cor-2-8-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"New release of Sen2Cor 2.8 is available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Users,<br \/>\nwe are pleased to provide Sen2Cor Release 2.8 under: <a href=\"http:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/third-party-plugins-2\/sen2cor\/sen2cor_v2-8\/\">http:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/third-party-plugins-2\/sen2cor\/sen2cor_v2.8\/<\/a><br \/>\nStand-alone installers for the three operating systems Linux, Windows and macOS are now available. All three versions require a 64-bit platform.<br \/>\nRegarding the algorithm, the main improvements of the Sen2Cor 2.8 processor compared to previous version 2.5.5 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support of the L1C generated with the current (14.5) and previous (14.2) Products Specification Document, as input.<\/li>\n<li>Improvement of the spatial homogeneity of surface reflectance between adjacent tiles.<\/li>\n<li>Improvement of the terrain correction algorithm in mountainous areas, in order to avoid artefacts for pixels under semi-transparent clouds.<\/li>\n<li>Improvement of the terrain correction algorithm, in order to avoid adjacent tile discontinuities in terrain correction for seemingly flat areas with gentle slopes.<\/li>\n<li>Improvement of the Scene Classification of snow\/ice, enabling the detection of snow above frozen lakes and icebergs in Arctic and Antarctic Sea.<\/li>\n<li> Improvement of the RAM consumption, which is now less than 4 GB.<\/li>\n<li>Optimization of the JPEG2000 files reading time with the support of OpenJPEG 2.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Sen2Cor SNAP adapter works with Sen2Cor 2.8 (PSD 14.5 and 14.2) and Sen2Cor 2.5.5 (PSD older than 14.2). The adapter will be updated soon and a new plugin update version will be published.<br \/>\nFor any further details, including installation step, and an overview on the evolutionary upgrades applied to Sen2Cor 2.8, please read the release notes which are provided under: <a href=\"http:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/third-party-plugins-2\/sen2cor\/sen2cor_v2-8\/\">http:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/third-party-plugins-2\/sen2cor\/sen2cor_v2.8\/<\/a><br \/>\nWith best regards,<br \/>\nSen2Cor Development Team <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Users, we are pleased to provide Sen2Cor Release 2.8 under: http:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/third-party-plugins-2\/sen2cor\/sen2cor_v2.8\/ Stand-alone installers for the three operating systems Linux, Windows and macOS are now available. All three versions require a 64-bit platform. Regarding the algorithm, the main improvements of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"1","publish_post_category":"16","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"55514","discourse_permalink":"http:\/\/forum.step.esa.int\/t\/new-release-of-sen2cor-2-8-is-available\/15481","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/step.esa.int\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}