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Sentinel-2 L2A True Color Optimized

//VERSION=3

function setup() {
  return {
    input: ["B04", "B03", "B02", "dataMask"],
    output: { bands: 4 }
  };
}

// Contrast enhance / highlight compress


const maxR = 3.0; // max reflectance

const midR = 0.13;
const sat = 1.2;
const gamma = 1.8;

function evaluatePixel(smp) {
  const rgbLin = satEnh(sAdj(smp.B04), sAdj(smp.B03), sAdj(smp.B02));
  return [sRGB(rgbLin[0]), sRGB(rgbLin[1]), sRGB(rgbLin[2]), smp.dataMask];
}

function sAdj(a) {
  return adjGamma(adj(a, midR, 1, maxR));
}

const gOff = 0.01;
const gOffPow = Math.pow(gOff, gamma);
const gOffRange = Math.pow(1 + gOff, gamma) - gOffPow;

function adjGamma(b) {
  return (Math.pow((b + gOff), gamma) - gOffPow) / gOffRange;
}

// Saturation enhancement

function satEnh(r, g, b) {
  const avgS = (r + g + b) / 3.0 * (1 - sat);
  return [clip(avgS + r * sat), clip(avgS + g * sat), clip(avgS + b * sat)];
}

function clip(s) {
  return s < 0 ? 0 : s > 1 ? 1 : s;
}

//contrast enhancement with highlight compression

function adj(a, tx, ty, maxC) {
  var ar = clip(a / maxC, 0, 1);
  return ar * (ar * (tx / maxC + ty - 1) - ty) / (ar * (2 * tx / maxC - 1) - tx / maxC);
}

const sRGB = (c) => c <= 0.0031308 ? (12.92 * c) : (1.055 * Math.pow(c, 0.41666666666) - 0.055);  

Evaluate and Visualize

Description

True color composite uses visible light bands red, green and blue in the corresponding red, green and blue color channels, resulting in a natural colored product, that is a good representation of the Earth as humans would see it naturally. This visualization uses highlight compression to ensure no maxing-out of clouds or snow, uses sRGB encoding for no extra darkening of shadows and adds a small amount of saturation boost.

Description of representative images

Optimized True Color image of Rome. Acquired on 2023-01-30, processed by Sentinel Hub.

S2-L2A True Color Optimized