Casiquiare Canal between Orinoco and Amazon

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 24 May 2016 from 10:09:58 to 10:10:23 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 16 December 2018 at 14:57:21 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 18 December 2018 at 14:47:29 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 02 January 2019 at 14:47:31 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Hydrologic basin, river, canal, Venezuela, Brazil, Amazon rainforest
Fig. 1 - S1 (24.05.2016) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) colour composite - Part of the Orinoco (north) and the Amazon basin (south).
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Fig. 2 - Casiquiare Canal is a distributary from the Orinoco flowing south-west to the Rio Negro, a major affluent to the Amazon.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (18.12.2018) - 12,11,2 colour composite - The Orinoco, World's 3rd river by volume, loses ~15% of its waters at the bifurcation.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (16.12.2018) - Casiquiare grows considerably before joining the Rio Negro, 2nd largest tributary of the Amazon.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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