Luangwa Rift Valley, Zambia

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 08 September 2023 at 07:46:21 UTC
Sentinel-3 SRAL LAND acquired on 09 September 2023 at 07:16:13 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 11 September 2023 at 03:23:04 UTC
Sentinel-3 SRAL LAND acquired on 11 September 2023 at 19:40:10 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 16 September 2023 at 03:31:09 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land, Geology, Rift Valley, Zambia, Africa
Fig. 1 - Africa Geological map - The Luangwa valley is a rift valley, a south-west extension of the east African Rift.
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Fig. 2 - S2 (08.09.2023) - Natural & Agriculture - The Luangwa river flows along the valley joining the Zambezi at the south west.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (11 & 16.09.2023) - The valley is easily visible in radar images, matching the lines extracted from the geological map.
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Fig. 4 - S3 SRAL (09 & 11.09.2023) - The SRAL products and the COP-DEM witness a height gradient of more the 800m.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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