Sentinel-2 Red salt crust in lake Natron

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 20 December 2016 at 07:52:12 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 08 February 2017 at 07:40:51 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): salt crust, lake Natron, Tanzania, Africa
Fig. 1 - S2 acquired on 20.12.2016 - 4-3-2 Natural colour composite
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Fig. 2 - S2 acquired on 08.02.2017 - 4-3-2 Natural colour composite
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Fig. 3 - S2 acquired on 20.12.2016 (left) v.s. 08.02.2017 (right) - 11-8-2 (SWIR-NIR-B) colour composite
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Fig. 4 - S2 acquired on 20.12.2016 (left) v.s. 08.02.2017 (right) - (B7-B5) red edge normalised difference
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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