| ESA | Earth Home | Missions | Data Products | Resources | Applications |
| 25-May-2013 |
 EO Data Access
|
|||
 |
How to Apply | ||
 |
|
|
|
| |
How to Access | ||
|
|||
| Services |
| Site Map |
|
| Frequently asked questions |
|
| Glossary |
|
| Credits |
|
| Terms of use |
|
| Contact us |
|
| Advanced Search |  |
ERS-2 in Action!
Gyroless operations of ERS-2, made possible by ESA and European industry, enable the satellite's multi-year activity to continue, thus securing an uninterrupted, good-quality SAR product data flow for utilisation in most application domains.
The ERS' showcase focuses today on:
Cape Town, Republic of South Africa*
Orbit 33270 (ascending) Frame 4293, 31 August 2001 08:38 GMT
Southwestern coast of South Africa, with the Table Bay and Cape Town's peculiar, widespread urban texture, very visible in the upper left.
In the Bay, full of ships, the harbour piers can be detected.
Immediately down the coast, to the left: the two quarters of Green Point and Sea Point, with the well-known Table Mountain alongside.
Bottom left: the promontory leading to the Cape of Good Hope.
Bottom right: the False Bay.
Click on the thumbnail image to see a higher resolution version of this image;
a very high
resolution image, 2432 x 2414 pixels, 1.4 MB, is also available.
* The Rio+10 Earth Summit was held in Johannesburg in September 2002.
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