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Sometimes when using Earth Engine I got an incomplete image, is there a way to get the full image? Example:

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The code that I am using is:

  var imageCollection = ee.ImageCollection("COPERNICUS/S2");
  var image_25 = ee.Image(imageCollection
    .filterDate('2016-05-01','2016-06-01')
    .filterMetadata('MGRS_TILE','equals','32VNK')
    .first())
    .select(['B2', 'B3', 'B4'])
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    The image is not 'incomplete'. The satellite captures images which are then split into a grid to make it easier to manage (previously the images were much larger and therefore took up more space). As the satellite doesn't travel the same vertical lines as per the grid, you will often have an image that has not captured the full extent of the grid, as above.
    – Walshe_d
    Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 16:42
  • @ Walshe_d is there a way the get only the images that cover the full extent of the grid?
    – carlos
    Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 17:27

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Like Walshe pointed out, the images are split into a fixed grid. There are tiles that never get completely covered by a single image, so filtering out scenes is probably not a good idea. Normally, this isn't a problem. I suppose you could re-assemble the tiles by joining images from same day/spacecraft/orbit-number:

var aoi = ee.Geometry.Polygon(
  [[[24.06, 21.91],
    [24.06, 3.48],
    [35.53, 3.48],
    [35.53, 21.91]]], null, false);

var s2 = ee.ImageCollection('COPERNICUS/S2')
  .filterBounds(aoi)
  .filterDate('2019-01-01', '2019-01-05')
  .map(function (image) {
    return image
      .set('date', image.date().format('yyyy-MM-dd'));
  });

var daily = ee.ImageCollection(
    ee.Join.saveAll('images').apply({
      primary: s2, 
      secondary: s2, 
      condition: ee.Filter.and(
        ee.Filter.equals({
          leftField: 'date',
          rightField: 'date'
        }),
        ee.Filter.equals({
          leftField: 'SPACECRAFT_NAME',
          rightField: 'SPACECRAFT_NAME'
        }),
        ee.Filter.equals({
          leftField: 'SENSING_ORBIT_NUMBER',
          rightField: 'SENSING_ORBIT_NUMBER'
        })
      )
    })
  )
  .map(function (image) {
    return ee.ImageCollection(ee.List(image.get('images')))
      .mosaic()
      .set('system:time_start', ee.Date(image.get('date')).millis());
  });

Map.centerObject(aoi, 6);  
Map.addLayer(daily.first(), {bands: 'B4,B3,B2', min: 300, max: 3000});

https://code.earthengine.google.com/e79ee0f3353ab2ef1890a3376905fd5c

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  • Nice example of a multi-property join!
    – Justin Braaten
    Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 18:54

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