Arakan, land of persecution of the Rohingyas

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 18 February 2017 at 04:18:21 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 17 March 2017 at 04:05:31 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 10 September 2017 from 11:54:13 to 11:55:53 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 17 September 2017 from 11:46:06 to 11:46:31 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Emergency, land, security, conflict, refugees, coastal band, mountain range, Bay of Bengal, Myanmar, Burma, Arakan, Rakhine
Fig. 1 - S2 (18.02.2017) - 11,NDI(8,4),2 composite - 400 000 Rohingyas are estimated to have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
Fig. 2 - S1A IW (10.09.2017) composite - vv-vh-ndi(vh,vv) - Rohingyas live in the poor Arakan state, mostly in its north-west.
Fig. 3 - S2 (18.02.2017 & 17.03.2017) - 4,3,2 true colour - Arakan state is located between the Bay of Bengal & the Arakan Range.
Fig. 4 - S1A (10 & 17.09.2017) - After decades of rights deprivation for religious & colonial motives, the conflict escalated fall 2016.