Hunter Valley coal mines, New South Wales, Australia

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 03 August 2019 at 00:02:51 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 12, 24 December 2019 & 05 January 2020 at 19:15:26 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 10 January 2020 at 00:02:31 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Natural resources, mine, land, emergency, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, fossil energies, heatwave, drought, wildfire, bush fire, Australia.
Fig. 1 - S2 (03.08.2019) - 12,11,2 natural colour - South looking view of Sidney region where fire rages, coal mines show in indigo.
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While exposed to climate change, Australia is one of the biggest per capita greenhouse gas emitters with ~85% of its electricity produced by coal.
Fig. 2 - S1 (mean of 12 & 24.12.2019, 05.01.2020) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) colour composite - Australia is the World's 2nd coal exporter.
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Fig. 3 - Australia recently approved the subsidised construction in Queensland of what could be the biggest coal mine in the World.
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Fig. 4 - neg(vh,vv,vh) - Australia is a wealthy & sunny country but diplomats have listed it among the big-6 resisting bolder action at COP25.
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