Earth from Space: Agricultural patchwork
The European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 mission captured high-resolution imagery of the Goldfields–Esperance region in Western Australia. The data helps monitor agricultural land use, crop health, and environmental changes in the saline landscape.
Why it matters
Satellite monitoring is essential for sustainable land management and tracking the environmental impact of climate change on agriculture.
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Australia’s southwestern corner in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, seen here in June 2026.
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Goldfields–Esperance is the largest of Western Australia's regions. The soils are generally quite saline and the climate is mostly hot and dry with typically low annual rainfall, except for the small wetter area around the town of Esperance pictured here.
The colours in this image are created by processing the image including Sentinel-2’s near-infrared channel, which highlights vegetation in red and helps to reveal different information compared to a natural colour image.
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