Remote Sens. 2015, 7, 12242-12264; doi:10.3390/rs70912242 OPEN ACCESS remote sensing ISSN 2072-4292 www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing Article SPOT-4 (Take 5): Simulation of Sentinel-2 Time Series on 45 Large Sites Olivier Hagolle 1;∗, Sylvia Sylvander 2, Mireille Huc 1, Martin Claverie 3, Dominique Clesse 4, Cécile Dechoz 2, Vincent Lonjou 2 and Vincent Poulain 5 1 Centre d’études Spatiales de la Biosphère, CESBIO Unite mixte Université de Toulouse-CNES-CNRS-IRD, 18 avenue E.Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France; E-Mail:
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[email protected]; Tel.: +33-56-128-2135. Academic Editors: Benjamin Koetz, Richard Müller and Prasad S. Thenkabail Received: 25 May 2015 / Accepted: 10 September 2015 / Published: 21 September 2015 Abstract: This paper presents the SPOT-4 (Take 5) experiment, aimed at providing time series of optical images simulating the repetitivity, the resolution and the large swath of Sentinel-2 images. The aim was to help users set up and test their applications and methods, before Sentinel-2 mission data become available.