Spotlight on Taiwan

Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT & OLCI FR acquired on 09 March 2022 at 02:01:44 UTC
Sentinel-3 OLCI FR acquired on 11 March 2022 at 02:10:57 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 26 July 2022 from 21:52:27 to 21:53:21 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Coastal, archipelago, island, security, Republic of China
Fig. 1 - S3 OLCI + SLSTR (11.03.2022) - Formosa island makes up 99% of the 36 193 km² area encompassed by Taiwan & its 168 islands.
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Formosa lies some 180 km across the Taiwan Strait from the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China.
Fig. 2 - S3 OLCI (09.03.2022) - With ~23.9 million inhabitants, the Republic of China is among the World's most densely populated countries.
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In particular, Taiwan hosts TSMC, the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturing company before Intel and Samsung.
Fig. 3 - S1 (26.07.2022) - After decades of authoritarianism, it is now the non-western state with the highest Democracy Index.
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The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Space Agency or the European Union.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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