Category 4 hurricane Eta hits Central America

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 15 October 2020 from 11:21:29 to 11:21:58 and from 23:49:17 to 23:49:42 UTC
Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 03 November 2020 from 02:54:09 to 03:36:34 UTC
Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 03 November 2020 from 15:20:04 to 15:26:04 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 08 November 2020 from 11:21:29 to 11:21:58 and from 23:49:17 to 23:49:42 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Natural disaster, cyclone, emergency, global warming, climate change, precipitations, flood, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala
Fig. 1 - S3 SLSTR (03.11.2020) - On 3 November, Hurricane Eta made landfall on the North Atlantic coast of Nicaragua as a cat-4 hurricane.
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Fig. 2 - S3 SLSTR (03.11.2020) - Nicaragua bore the brunt of the hurricane with heavy rainfall and high winds of up to 230km/h.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (15.10.2020) - It triggered flooding & landslides in Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica & Belize.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (08.11.2020) - Eta killed more than 150 people and became the second-strongest November hurricane on record.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by VisioTerra.
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