Visit to Falkland Islands

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 18 April 2018 at 13:46:39 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 20 April 2018 at 13:36:41 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 26 April 2018 at 08:46:15 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Island, archipelago, water colour, geology, mountains, plankton bloom, strait, isthmus, Falkland, United Kingdom, UK
Fig. 1 - S1 (26.04.2018) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) colour composite - Falkland Islands are a small British archipelago lying in the furious 50s.
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Fig. 2 - S2 (18 & 20.04.2018) - 11,8,2 colour composite - View of the isthmus of East Falkand, the archipelago's largest island.
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Fig. 3 - S2 - Now 500km east of Patagonia, the Falkland plateau was once a huge mountain range in Gondwana next to the Karoos.
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Fig. 4 - S2 - 4,3,2 natural colour - Plankton colours and concentration vary along this 200-km long bloom.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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