Fucino plain, Italy

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 11 January 2020 at 10:02:59 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 27 January 2020 at 17:05:45 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 27 January 2021 at 17:05:08 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 30 January 2021 at 10:02:41 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land, plain, endorheic lake, agriculture, Italy
Fig. 1 - S2 (11.01.2020) - Fucino plain is located in Western Abruzzo, central Italy.
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Fig. 2 - S2 (30.01.2021) - Once the third largest lake in Italy, it was drained in 1878 after several attempts during the Roman Empire.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (27.01.2020) - It took 13 years to empty the lake, following the same path as the Antiquity canal.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (27.01.2021) - The resulting plain is one of Italy's most fertile regions, it also home to a large Telespazio satellite farm.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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