Shanghai, China, fluvial highway on the Yangtze River

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 19 April 2018 at 02:35:49 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 19 December 2018 from 09:54:44 to 09:55:09 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 31 December 2018 from 09:54:43 to 09:55:08 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 12 January 2019 from 09:54:43 to 09:55:08 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Urban, city, port, infrastructure, river, traffic, security, China
Fig. 1 - S2 (19.04.2018) - On the Yangtze Estuary of China's east coast, Shanghai is China's largest city with around 28 millions inhabitants.
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Fig. 2 - S1 (19.12.2018 - 12.01.2019) - Shanghai is located between the Yangtze River to the north and Hangzhou Bay to the south.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (19.04.2018) - There are numerous docks on this fluvial highway, in particular on the Yangtze Southern bank.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (19.04.2018) - With 43.3 million TEU containers in 2019, it is the World's busiest container port since 2010.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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