Kaskakia, from a state capital to a hamlet, Illinois, USA

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 16 June 2018 at 23:55:47 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 17 December 2018 at 16:47:09 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 10 June 2019 at 16:39:01 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 11 June 2019 at 23:55:53 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Urban planning, flood, Missouri river, Mississippi, Illinois, United States, USA
Fig. 1 - S2 (17.12.2018) - 4,3,2 natural colour - Native American peoples long inhabited Kaskaskia, along the Mississippi.
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French colonists named the town after the Illini people word for the Kaskaskia River and built a fort there.
Fig. 2 - S1 (16.06.2018) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) composite - Until 1819, Kaskakia served as the capital of Illinois, its population then reached 7000.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (10.06.2019) - Repeatedly flooded by the Mississippi, it became an exclave of Illinois within Missouri after a channel change.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (11.06.2019) - Progressively abandoned, the 2010 US census counted 14 inhabitants in Kaskakia.
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