The Bosphorus Strait, Turkey
SAR Orbit number: 48286
15 July 2004
Description:
This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image is centred
over the Bosporus strait, located in the northwest of Turkey. It separates the European part
(Rumeli - left) of Turkey from its Asian part (Anadolu - right), connecting the Sea of Marmara
with the Black Sea. It is 30 km long, with a maximum width of 3,700 meters at the northern
entrance, and a minimum width of 750 meters between Anadoluhisari and Rumelihisari. The southern
shores of the strait are heavily populated as the city of Istanbul (bright area) straddles it and
encompasses the natural harbor known as the Golden Horn. 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: 15 July 2004, Green: 6 May 2004, Blue: 22 January 2004
- Orbit numbers: 48286, 47284, 45781
- Frame: 2781
- Instrument features: 25 meter resolution
- Coordinates:
NE Lat/Long: N 41.30 / E 29.86
NW Lat/Long: N 41.48 / E 28.71
SW Lat/Long: N 40.58 / E 28.46
SE Lat/Long: N 40.40 / E 29.60
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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 Bosporus strait, located in the northwest of Turkey. It separates the European part
(Rumeli - left) of Turkey from its Asian part (Anadolu - right), connecting the Sea of Marmara
with the Black Sea. It is 30 km long, with a maximum width of 3,700 meters at the northern
entrance, and a minimum width of 750 meters between Anadoluhisari and Rumelihisari. The southern
shores of the strait are heavily populated as the city of Istanbul (bright area) straddles it and
encompasses the natural harbor known as the Golden Horn. 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.