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Amaravati capital site

Farmland pooled for a new state capital on the Krishna river.

425.0 hectares changed — new water / flooding · Before: 1 Dec 2018 – 15 Mar 2019 · After: 1 Dec 2024 – 15 Mar 2025 · 16.515, 80.518

BEFORE 2019-03

AFTER 2025-03

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425.0 haarea changed

149areas flagged

6,416 haarea examined

2satellites used

What changed, by type

242.4 haNew water / flooding

100.1 haNew construction / earthworks

44.2 haunclassified

32.0 haVegetation cleared

6.3 haWater disappeared

Land changes in both directions at once. SCOPE reports every type it measured, not only the one that makes the better headline.

What SCOPE found

New water / flooding — 15.4 ha
3.4 km west · 86% sure

New water / flooding — 9.6 ha
4.0 km south-west · 86% sure

New water / flooding — 8.3 ha
3.8 km south-west · 86% sure

New water / flooding — 7.8 ha
4.1 km south-west · 86% sure

New construction / earthworks — 7.2 ha
2.8 km north-east · 84% sure

How sure is this?

The strongest area (#1) has 86% confidence. It appears in 6 of 6 later clear images, so it is not a one-day artefact. Radar could not confirm or rule them out (normal for vegetation changes), so the result rests on repeated clear optical views and the seasonal comparison. Only 0% of the area had clear optical views, so some change may be hidden by cloud. Note: Optical imagery was unusable (cloud); results rely on Sentinel-1 radar only. Confidence measures how strong the evidence for real surface change is; it does not identify the cause or who did it.

How it was measured

SCOPE used Sentinel-2 optical imagery at 10 m, cloud-masked and combined over each period, Sentinel-1 radar as an independent check , and the same season in earlier years so normal seasonal change is not reported as real change. The analysis took 14 seconds.

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