Agricultural change

Bloemhof dam and surrounding agricultural fields along the Vaal river in South Africa. Can you make out the funky seahorse blowing bubbles?

This image was obtained from the vertical co-polarization from the synthetic aperture radar sensor on Sentinel-1. Scenes in January, June and December of 2016 where assigned to the red, blue and green bands, respectively. We cahn use such images visualize change in colout. Landcover that has changed over the year displays with more vivid colours.

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