Belcher Islands, Hudson Bay, Canada

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 31 July 2020 at 16:29:01 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR EW acquired on 18 September 2020 at 11:33:29 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 02 April 2021 at 16:28:29 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR EW acquired on 22 April 2021 at 11:33:27 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Archipelago, island, polar, Arctic, Canada.
Fig. 1 - S1 (22.04.2021) - The Belcher Islands are an archipelago in the southeast part of Hudson Bay.
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Fig. 2 - S2 (02.04.2021) - Almost 3000 km² big, they belong to the Nunavut province distant of 950 km but are only 100 km away from Quebec.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (31.07.2020) - The oldest part of the Belcher Group, the Kasegalik Formation, was deposited over 2 billion years ago.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (18.09.2020) - The Belcher Island support 900 inhabitants and almost as many caribous.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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