Burkinabe-Malian Sourou valley designated Ramsar site

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 11 October 2018 at 18:28:14 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 12 October 2018 at 10:30:21 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 15 January 2019 at 10:33:59 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 15 January 2019 at 18:28:12 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): River, hydrology, wetland, Mali, Burkina Faso
Fig. 1 - S2 (12.10.2018) - 11,8,4 colour composite - Sourou river at the end of the rain season.
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Fig. 2 - S1 (11.10.2018) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) colour composite - Usually a tributary of the Black Volta, it becomes a distributary at this period.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (15.01.2019) - 11,8,2 colour composite - The landscape of this tropical land changes dramatically during the dry season.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (15.01.2019) - Burkina Faso & Mali declared the Sourou Valley as a Transboundary Ramsar Site the 22.01.2019.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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