Blue Rhone & white Arve meet down of Lake Leman

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 25 September 2018 at 10:40:21 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 05 October 2018 at 10:40:21 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 22 February 2019 at 10:40:41 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 17 June 2019 at 10:40:29 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 29 June 2019 at 10:30:31 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Rivers, water colour, alluvion, silt, erosion, lake, Alps, France, Switzerland
Fig. 1 - S2 (29.06.2019) - Lying between Alps & Jura, France & Switzerland, Lake Leman receives its water mostly from the Rhone at South.
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Fig. 2 - 22.02.2019 - Here at north, the Rhone has deposited most of its alluvium within Lake Leman, turning dark blue at the lake outlet.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (05.10.2018) - The Arve river shows here at south-east in cyan.
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The Arve river also follows a nival regime but it still carries a lot of silt though its content and flow rate varies with seasons and precipitations.
Fig. 4 - 17.06.2019 - The upper third of the Rhone lies within the canton of Valais, Switzerland, while its course below Geneva lies in France.
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Fig. 5 - 25.09.2018 - The Arve river flows from the Mount Blanc massif leaving France for Switzerland in the last few kilometres.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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