World water day - Colour changing octopus in Bombetoka Bay, Madagascar

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 30 March 2016 at 07:12:05 UTC
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Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 01 October 2017 at 07:12:11 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Water colour, coastal, river, delta, bay, mangrove, sediments, erosion, Madagascar
Fig. 1 - 01.10.2017 - 4,3,2 colour composite - Bombetoka Bay on a clear day, its blue water flows into the Mozambique canal.
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Fig. 2 - 05.12.2016 - Eroded material carried by the then yellow river dilutes into Bombetoka Bay water, giving it a cyan hue.
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Fig. 3 - 30.03.2016 - The bay becomes greenish as the load of orange-red sediments increases in Betsiboka River.
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Fig. 4 - 15.12.2016 - Such red sediment plumes backs the saying that Madagascar soil "bleeds into the ocean".
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by VisioTerra.
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