File:Lake Fitri.jpg

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This image acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 20 October 2020 shows Lake Fitri, in Chad.

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English: This image acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 20 October 2020 shows Lake Fitri, in Chad. Lake Fitri is a sink lake, a collection of water within an endorheic basin, that retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation It is located in the southern Sahara Desert and fed by seasonal rainfall: its area can triple in wet years but it may dry out completely in case of in wetter years. In 2005 it was designated under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international importance because its habitat hosts wintering of Palearctic waterbirds and is a drought refuge for Afrotropical species and elephants. Copernicus Sentinel-2 is a two-spacecraft satellite mission used to deliver data that improves knowledge about permanent and seasonal vegetation of wetlands.
Date 24 October 2020 (upload date)
Source Lake Fitri
Author European Union , Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

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Attribution: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2020

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