Teheran Iran
SAR Orbit number: 21274
10 June 1999
Description:
This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour
composite image is centred over the city of Tehran (bright area centre
image), capital and largest city of Iran, located in the northern part
of the country. The image illustrates that the city sits on a sandy
plateau between the slopes of the Elburz Mountains (north) and the
northwestern fringes of the Dasht-e Kavir desert (dark area bottom
right). The various colour patches sparse to the southwest and south of
the city indicate cultivated agricultural fields. Visible are the
airports serving Tehran: Mehrabad International Airport, the old
airport located in the western part of the city, Khomeini International
Airport, outside the city and to the south and also the Doshan Tappeh
Airfield to the east.
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: 16 May 1999, Green: 20 June 1999, Blue: 13
September 1998
- Orbit numbers: 21274, 21775, 17767
- Frame: 2889
- Instrument features: 25 meter resolution
- Coordinates:
NE Lat/Long: N 35.99 / E 52.10
NW Lat/Long: N 36.17 / E 51.03
SE Lat/Long: N 35.08 / E 51.85
SW Lat/Long: N 35.26 / E 50.80
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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 Tehran (bright area centre
image), capital and largest city of Iran, located in the northern part
of the country. The image illustrates that the city sits on a sandy
plateau between the slopes of the Elburz Mountains (north) and the
northwestern fringes of the Dasht-e Kavir desert (dark area bottom
right). The various colour patches sparse to the southwest and south of
the city indicate cultivated agricultural fields. Visible are the
airports serving Tehran: Mehrabad International Airport, the old
airport located in the western part of the city, Khomeini International
Airport, outside the city and to the south and also the Doshan Tappeh
Airfield to the east.