Copies of US warships in the Taklamakan desert, China

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 02 October 2021 at 04:56:59 UTC
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Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 05 November 2021 at 12:08:46 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 06 November 2021 at 00:08:40 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 11 November 2021 at 05:00:29 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land, desert, security, China
Fig. 1 - S1 (05.11.2021) - Copies of US warships have been found in the Taklamakan desert, in the Xinjiang Uygur region, in western China
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Fig. 2 - S2 (02.10.2021) - A mobile copy visible just outside a storage building in early October.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (06.11.2021) - The mock up of a carrier is visible at north, several copies of destroyers at south.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (11.11.2021) - Several fixed targets (orange) showed, mobile copies (yellow) were visible on the railway (green).
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by VisioTerra.
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