Oslo Norway
SAR Orbit number: 47285
6 May 2004
Description:
This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour
composite image is centred over the city of Oslo (bright area centre
image), the capital of Norway. The city lies on the Akerselva at the
head of the Oslofjorden in southeast of the country. The fjord, which
is nearly bisected by the Nesodden peninsula opposite Oslo and lies to
the south. The landscape is mostly high plateaus and rugged mountains
broken by fertile valleys and small scattered plains, where the various
coloured patches indicate cultivated agricultural fields.
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: 04 October 2001, Green: 06 May 2004 , Blue:
14 March 1996
- Orbit numbers: 33758, 47285, 4700
- Instrument features: 25 meter resolution
- Coordinates:
NE Lat/Long: N 60.19 / E 11.96
NW Lat/Long: N 60.41 / E 10.24
SW Lat/Long: N 59.53 / E 9.81
SE Lat/Long: N 59.31 / E 11.48
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