Earth from Space: Agricultural patchwork
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.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full resolution.Goldfields–Esperance is the largest of Western Australia's regions. Agricultural fields create a colourful patchwork of geometric shapes dominating the lower-left part of the image. The colours range from red to brown, allowing for better discrimination between different types of vegetation.
- ▪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.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full resolution.Gol
- ▪Agricultural fields create a colourful patchwork of geometric shapes dominating the lower-left part of the image.
- ▪The colours range from red to brown, allowing for better discrimination between different types of vegetation.
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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.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full resolution.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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