Biodiversity in Pô-Nazinga-Sissili wetland, Burkina Faso

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 11 October 2017 from 18:19:11 to 18:19:36 UTC
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Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 22 January 2019 at 10:23:29 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 22 January 2019 from 18:19:15 to 18:19:40 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land, savannah, wetland, biodiversity, Ramsar site, Burkina Faso
Fig. 1 - S2 (14 & 17.10.2017) - 11,8,2 colour composite - This story highlights the Pô-Nazinga-Sissili area for UN World Wildlife Day.
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The complex hosts large herbivores such as elephant (which of the threatened African bush elephant), buffalo, sable antelope and waterbuck.
Fig. 2 - S1 (11.10.2017) - vv,vh,vv colour composite - Radar acquisition near the end of the rain season.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (20 & 22.01.2019) - Here shown near the end of the dry season, it is located in Burkina Faso and borders Ghana.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (22.01.2019) - Threatened by fragmentation, its narrow central corridor eases fauna north / south migrations.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by VisioTerra.
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