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Bhadla Solar Park

One of the world's largest solar parks built on Thar desert sand.

194.1 hectares changed — new water / flooding · Before: 1 Feb 2017 – 15 May 2017 · After: 1 Feb 2022 – 15 May 2022 · 27.538, 71.917

BEFORE 2017-05

AFTER 2022-05

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194.1 haarea changed

50areas flagged

6,416 haarea examined

2satellites used

What changed, by type

82.9 haNew water / flooding

63.1 haWater disappeared

28.8 haNew construction / earthworks

11.0 haVegetation cleared

8.4 haunclassified

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 — 32.4 ha
0.5 km north-east · 86% sure

New construction / earthworks — 15.4 ha
3.4 km east · 83% sure

Water disappeared — 11.4 ha
5.0 km south-east · 77% sure

Water disappeared — 8.8 ha
3.0 km north-east · 77% sure

Water disappeared — 6.3 ha
3.5 km north-east · 77% 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 . The analysis took 8 seconds.

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