Record holders of Earth Overshoot Day 2018

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 29 April 2015 from 14:31:47 to 14:32:12 UTC
Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 22 March 2017 at 15:33:03 UTC
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Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 31 July 2018 at 05:50:34 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land cover, climate change, urban, water, sustainable energies, Qatar, Luxembourg, United Arab Emirates, USA
Fig. 1 - S1 (28.11.2017) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) - Earth Overshoot Day would have fallen the 9th February if all humanity lived like Qataris.
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Earth Overshoot Day is the date on which humanity’s resource consumption exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that same year.
Fig. 2 - 31.07.2018 - vv,vh,vv - The 2nd soonest happened in Luxemburg the 19th February, long before other European countries.
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Fig. 3 - 29.04.2015, 06.05.2015 & 25.11.2017 - It happened in United Arab Emirates the 4th March, little before Bahrain & Kuwait.
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Fig. 4 - S3 SLSTR - Just before Canada, USA reached it the 15th of March, as opposed to 1st of August for Humanity in average.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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