1,171.2 hectares changed — vegetation cleared
Navi Mumbai International Airport · 18.990, 73.070
Before: 1 Nov 2018 – 28 Feb 2019 · After: 1 Nov 2024 – 28 Feb 2025
BEFORE 2019-02
AFTER 2025-02
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1,171.2 haarea changed
159areas flagged
6,416 haarea examined
2satellites used
What SCOPE found
Vegetation cleared — 390.7 ha1.2 km south · between 4 Nov 2018 and 26 Jan 2025 · 94% sure
Vegetation cleared — 196.5 ha2.7 km north-east · between 4 Nov 2018 and 31 Jan 2025 · 90% sure
New construction / earthworks — 76.8 ha1.4 km south-west · between 4 Nov 2018 and 26 Jan 2025 · 94% sure
New construction / earthworks — 31.7 ha4.5 km south-west · 80% sure
Vegetation cleared — 25.9 ha2.9 km west · between 4 Nov 2018 and 31 Jan 2025 · 89% sure
…and 154 more area(s) in the full report.
How sure is this?
The strongest area (#1) has 94% confidence. It appears in 6 of 6 later clear images, so it is not a one-day artefact. Radar confirmed some of these areas; the others rest on optical and seasonal evidence. Compared with the same season in earlier years, this is clearly unusual. Only 77% of the area had clear optical views, so some change may be hidden by cloud. Note: One optical window has a single clear acquisition; persistence checks are weaker. 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, which sees through cloud, as an independent check; the same season in 2018, 2017, so normal seasonal change is not reported as real change. The whole analysis took 41 seconds.
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