Airbus explores its imagery catalogue to unveil 12 sites currently affected or facing future climate challenges.
Submerged Isles in Solomon Islands
The vegetation is still present on the image SPOT 5 acquired in July 2011, whereas on the SPOT 7 image captured in October 2017, the waves roll over submerged lands.
In 2015, the intensity of the El Niño seasonal weather pattern caused Lake Poopó in Bolivia to completely dry out. Two SPOT 6/7 constellation images clearly show the effects of the ecological disaster
On the Pléiades image acquired in December 2012, the sands and rocks testify to the aridity of the region. In the later Pléaides image, the flowers invade the dry landcape forming a carpet of mauve, yellow and multiple shades of green.
The SPOT 6 image captured on 5th September 2013, shows two fires still active in the Yosemite Valley. With the near-infrared band appearing very distinct in the burnt areas.
The reduction of the size of the island is clearly visible between the image 20m resolution SPOT 1 image taken in March 1989 and the image SPOT 7 image from November 2016.
TerraSAR-X Based Monitoring of Forest Degradation in Ghana
Newly-acquired TerraSAR-X StripMap images with 3m resolution were compared with archive datasets, facilitating the detection of even small-scale variations