December 23, 2024

A Vivid Space Perspective: Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines

In the image, various seasons are represented with varying colors, exposing elaborate information about crop development stages, waterlogged fields for rice production, and urbanization. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2022-23), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOThe heart of the Nueva Vizcaya Province on Luzon, the largest and most populated island of the Philippines, shows up brightly in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 false-color satellite image.The colors in the image are due to it being a multitemporal composite, made up of 3 Copernicus Sentinel-2 images obtained with the missions near-infrared channel over a period of 10 months. These include Solano, the largest town in Nueva Vizcaya, visible in the bottom left surrounded by blue fields, and more south is Bayombong, the capital of the province.The dark winding lines portray rivers, with the greatest, Magat River, flowing in a north-easterly direction across the image.