Focus on Johannesburg, South Africa largest city

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 16 April 2019 at 03:34:36 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 27 April 2019 at 07:46:19 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 28 April 2019 at 03:34:36 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 10 May 2019 at 03:34:36 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land, urban planning, infrastructure, RSA, South Africa
Fig. 1 - S2 (27.04.2019) - 12,8,4 - The spacial organisation of Johannesburg is largely inheritated from the Apartheid racial divisions.
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Fig. 2 - 4,3,2 natural colour - Surrounded by vegetation and large roads, standing suburbs are darker than densely packed roof plate slums.
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Fig. 3 - 8,4,3 composite - The trees and lawns of wealthy areas show in red, contrasting with the green-cyan of poorer residential areas.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (mean 16.04.2019, 28.04.2019 & 10.05.2019) - vv,vh,vv - Denser roof plate housing in townships show in bright saturated colour.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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