The Chinese paddlefish, first specie extinct in 2020

Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 29 April 2017 at 02:20:07 UTC
Sentinel-3 OLCI FR & SLSTR RBT acquired on 13 May 2017 from 02:54:31 to 02:57:31 UTC
Sentinel-3 OLCI FR acquired on 23 July 2017 at 02:16:23 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 17 December 2018 at 03:21:29 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): River, biodiversity, dam, overfishing, China
Fig. 1 - S3 SLSTR (29.04.2017 & 13.05.2017) - S5,S3,S2 colour composite - View of the Yangtse river basin.
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The Chinese paddlefish was a 3m long freshwater fish that lived in Yangtze & Yellow river basins, it was last seen alive in 2003.
Fig. 2 - S3 OLCI (13.05.2017 & 23.07.2017) - 10,6,3 natural colour - Zoom on the higher Yangtze. It had been functionally extinct since 1993.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (17.12.2018) - 4,3,2 natural colour - Gezhouba dam. It is now officially considered extinct, the first specie in 2020.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (17.12.2018) - 11,8,2 colour composite - 3 gorges dam. Dams played a major role, fragmenting its habitat & preventing migration
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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