Islamabad, a new city built to be Pakistan's capital

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 29 February 2016 from 01:06:37 to 01:07:02 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 18 September 2017 at 05:46:29 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 21 April 2018 at 05:46:41 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 21 May 2018 at 05:46:41 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Urban growth, infrastructure, Pakistan
Fig. 1 - S2 (21.04.2018) - 4,3,2 - After its independence in 1947, Pakistan chose Karachi as capital but switched to Islamabad in 1967.
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Fig. 2 - 21.05.2018 - To this end, Islamabad was built around Rawalpindi (next to Himalayan foothills & near the Indian border) from 1961.
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Its population rose from nul to 200000 in 1981, 500 000 in 1998, 1 000 000 in 2017; the larger Islamabad-Rawalpindi area exceeds 4 000 000.
Fig. 3 - 18.09.2017 - A cosmopolitan and urbanised city, it is labelled as very high on the Human Development Index with 0.875
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Fig. 4 - S1 (29.02.2016) - vv,vh,vv composite - Its zone I consists mainly of all the developed residential sectors, each covers 2 km × 2 km.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by VisioTerra.
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