Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

SAR Orbit number: 52137

10 April 2005

Description:
This multitemporal colour composite SAR image centres over Sarajevo, the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sarajevo lies in the exact geometric center of the triangular-shaped Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Sarajevo valley, a small depression 500 meters above sea level. The city covers 142 km²(88.2 mi²) of land, expanding on a relatively flat terrain. However, some of the outskirts and far eastern parts of Sarajevo are hilly and the old town in particular is renowned for its steep streets and landscape.

The river Miljacka flows through the city from east to west and is one of the city's chief geographic features. The river is a tributary of the Bosna river; its source is in the town of Pale, some kilometers to the east of Sarajevo.

The city is surrounded by five major mountains: Bjelasnica (2067 meters) and Igman (1502 meters) to the southwest; Jahorina (1913 meters) and Trebevic (1627 meters) to the southeast; Treskavica (2088 meters) to the north.

Bjelasnica can be spotted as the pale beige area at the very centre of the image, to the south west of Sarajevo. This mountain is made up of calcarenites and dolimites, which give the mountain its characteristic colour.

The small lake on the South West, near the left edge of the image, is in fact part of a much larger lake, the Jablanicko Jezero Lake, trending E-W and extending for 40km, from the city of Konjic to the village of Orlac.

To create this image, a different colour was assigned to three ERS-2 SAR images, each acquired on a different date.

Technical Information:

• Instrument: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
• Dates of Acquisition: 10 April 2005 (red), 04 July 2004 (green), 07 December 2003 (blue)
• Frame: 2727
• Orbit number: 52137, 48129, 45123
• Instrument features: 25 meter resolution
• Coordinates:

NE Lat/Long: N 44.03 / E 18.42
NW Lat/Long: N 44.03 / E 17.43
SW Lat/Long: N 43.28 / E 18.41
SE Lat/Long: N 43.28 / E 17.43

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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