Salar de Uyuni, World's largest salt desert, Bolivia

Sentinel-3 SRAL LAND acquired on 15, 16, 25, 26, 29 and 30 December 2022
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 02 January 2023 at 10:00:24 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 03 January 2023 at 14:37:29 UTC
Photos shot by Paul Gross in December 2013
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land, salar, desert, geology, natural resources, mine, Uyuni, Bolivia
Fig. 1 - Salar de Uyuni is the largest salar in the world with an area over 10,000 km². It is located in the southwest of Bolivia.
2D view
Fig. 2 - S2 (03.01.2023) - Natural and false colour composites showing the wealth of the Salar de Uyuni landscape.
2D view 2D view
Fig. 3 - S1 (02.01.2023) - Here is a radar view showing structural patterns hardly visible in the optical views.
2D view
Fig. 4 - S3 SRAL - The salar is known to be one of the world's flatest area. The elevation variation is within one meter over all the area.
3D view
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by VisioTerra.
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