Madrid, Spain
SAR Orbit number: 47364
11 April 2004
Description:
This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour
composite image shows the city of Madrid (large bright area), the
capital of Spain, which is located on the Meseta Central, a vast and
almost treeless plateau covering about 40 percent of the country.
Visible in the upper left corner of the image is the Sistema Central
mountain chain that divides the Mesata Central into northern and
southern subregions.
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: 5 August 2003, Green: 11 May 2004, Blue: 18 March 2002
- Orbit number: 43356, 47364, 41352
- Frame: 801
- Instrument features: 25 meter resolution
- Coordinates:
NE Lat/Long: N 40.56 / W 4.23
NW Lat/Long: N 40.74 / W 3.09
SW Lat/Long: N 39.86 / W 2.85
SE Lat/Long: N 39.68 / W 3.97
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