Kazungula bridge, where four countries meet

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 11 April 2015 at 16:48:44 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 31 August 2021 at 16:48:41 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 16 September 2015 at 08:07:46 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 12 April 2021 at 08:06:09 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 03 November 2021 at 08:11:11 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land, river, infrastructure, border, security, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Fig. 1 - S2 (03.11.2021) - 150 meters separate Botswana (south), Namibia (S-W), Zambia (north), Zimbabwe (S-E).
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Fig. 2 - S1 (18.03.2015->23.04.2015) - Botswana has 150m of river frontage between Namibia’s Caprivi Strip extreme tip & Zimbabwe.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (07.08.2021->12.09.2021) - The 400m wide Zambezi river used to be crossed by ferry between Kazungula in Zambia & Kazungula in Botswana.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (16.09.2015) - The 923-meter road and rail Kazungula bridge crosses has been built from 2014 at a cost of $260 million.
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Fig. 5 - S2 (12.04.2021) - Opened on 10 May 2021, it should relieve the congestion at one of Africa’s busiest border crossings.
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Fig. 6 - S2 (03.11.2021) - Neighbouring towns have already grown in a few months since the opening of the bridge.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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