Hiroshima Japan
SAR Orbit number: 38634
10 September 2004
Description:
This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour
composite image is centred over the city of Hiroshima, Japan (bright
area top centre). The city is located on the broad, flat delta of the
Ota River, which has 7 channel outlets dividing the city into six
islands which project into Hiroshima Bay. The city is almost entirely
flat and only slightly above sea level; only to the northwest and
northeast of the city, there are some hills.
The mountains of are the most conspicuous feature of the topography in
this image. Mountain ranges extend across the image from north to
south, descending to the coast, forming bays and harbours. The image is
made of three ERS-2 SAR PRI (Precision Radar Image) images acquired on
different dates and assigning a colour (RGB) to each date of
acquisition.
Technical Information:
- Instrument: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
- Dates of acquisition: Red: 23 April 2002, Green: 10 September 2002,
Blue: 8 October 2002
- Orbit number: 36630, 38634, 35127
- Frame: 2918
- Instrument features: 25 meter resolution
- Coordinates:
NE Lat/Long: N 34.56 / E 132.93
NW Lat/Long: N 34.74 / E 131.88
SE Lat/Long: N 33.66 / E 132.99
SW Lat/Long: N 33.84 / E 131.66
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Keywords: ESA European
Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne,
observation de la terre, earth observation,
satellite remote sensing,
teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar,
chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar,
atmospheric chemistry
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This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour
composite image is centred over the city of Hiroshima, Japan (bright
area top centre). The city is located on the broad, flat delta of the
Ota River, which has 7 channel outlets dividing the city into six
islands which project into Hiroshima Bay. The city is almost entirely
flat and only slightly above sea level; only to the northwest and
northeast of the city, there are some hills.