The Swiss Plateau by Day

ERS 2 Orbit 37222

2002-06-03

03/06/02: The Swiss Plateau by Day The Swiss Plateau by Day Orbit 37222, Frame 2655, 3 June 2002 10:20 GMT ERS passed over this area in central Europe twice the same day, the 3rd June 2002, once at 12:40 local time on a descending orbit, heading south-southwest and once in the night, at 21:40, travelling north-northwest. This image can be compared with the same area shown during a nighttime acquisition . The lakes visible on the image take the names of the principal towns on their shores: Lake of Neuchtel (the largest), Lake of Bienne and Lake of Murten, the smallest. The bright area in the centre of the scene is Bern, the capital of Switzerland and in the lower right the Lake of Thun is partly visible. Click on the thumbnail image to see details of this widely varied landscape, the towns of Bienne, Murten, Yverdon, and Neuchtel, the structures built for the Sixth Swiss National Exhibition, as well as explanations on the differences between a nighttime and a daytime radar pass. A very high resolution image , 982 x 978 pixels, 365046 bytes , is also available.

Technical Information:

• Instrument:
• Date of Document: 2002-06-03
• Orbit number: 37222
• Orbit direction: Descending
• Frame: 2655
• Station: Kiruna (Sweden), Matera (Italy), Neustrelitz (Germany)
• Product type: RAW

Event:

Starts on 2002-06-03, ends on 2002-06-03

Coordinates:

northlimit=47.69; southlimit=46.62;westlimit=6.52; eastlimit=8.08

GML bounding-box:

47.69 6.80 47.50 8.08 46.62 7.79 46.81 6.52

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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