Earth from Space: Desert cropland

These Copernicus Sentinel-2 images show agricultural development in the desert of southern Egypt, close to the border with Sudan.Egypt is over 95% desert, making a very small proportion of its land suitable for agriculture. As the demand for food grows, the need for agricultural development in desert areas has intensified. This comparison highlights an important land reclamation project, where Egypt’s Western Desert is being used for agriculture, and how it has developed between 2015 (left image) and 2025.These false-colour images have been processed using Sentinel-2’s near-infrared channel to display vegetation in red – a particularly stark contrast to the desert areas across the region.

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