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TARKKA Service for Satellite Data

Point of contact
Markus Törmä
Finnish Environment Institute - SYKE
Latokartanonkaari 11
00790 Helsinki
Phone: +358-29-295251713


The TARKKA service offers the possibility to browse and view SYKE's open satellite data and additional data covering the region of Europe. Satellite data includes among other things

  • True color images of Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 instruments
  • Water quality data of the Baltic Sea and Finnish lakes
  • Snow data of Northern, Eastern and Central Europe
  • Various index mosaics

The map interface of the service offers the following:

  • High resolution satellite data (10 m - 60 m)
  • Medium resolution satellite data (300 m - 1 km)
  • Daily update of new satellite data to the TARKKA service

Please use the first link namend under "Related Links" to access the TARKKA service. The other two links provide information about the metadata of the service and about the above named products based on satellite observations.