Northern Europe, July 2002

The coloured frames on the map show the acquisitions from which the images below are derived (e.g. the images could be only a sub-set of the acquisition). The colour around the images below are referring to these frames colours.

Click on the thumbnails to view the full size images

	ERS-2 SAR  multitemporal image composed by data acquired on the 16 August, orbit 38281 and on the 13 Aug 1998, orbit 17329 (LIGHT BLUE frame on the map).
		Image Detail of the Vltava - Elbe conjunction (click to enlarge)
		Image detail over the town of Prague and the Vtlava (click to enlarge)
	ERS-2 SAR multitemporal image (13 August & 9 July 2002) over Dresden area (Red 13/8, Green 9/7, Blue Principal Component) (VIOLET frame on the map).
		Image detail over Dresden. In Blue the flooded areas, while in black the areas normally covered by water.  (click to enlarge at 913 x 919 pixels)
		Image detail over the town of Riesa (click to enlarge at 652 x 592 pixels)
	ENVISAT ASAR image acquired on the 19 August 2002, 9:30 UTC, Orbit 2452 (within the YELLOW frame on the map) around the town of Dresden (bottom right, bright yellowish points) along the Elbe river. The image is taken in Alternate Polarisation mode and the colours are given by the different polarisation (Red HH, Green HV, Blue Difference between the two). Water-covered areas are clearly visible in blue and, around Riesa town, flooded areas are quite large. This image was reduced for volume reasons. The original image has a spatial resolution about 25 meters. Click to zoom in.
	ERS-2 SAR multitemporal image acquired on the 19 August 2002, 10:00 UTC (half an hour after ENVISAT), orbit 38324 frame 2572 and 10 August 1998, orbit 17282 as reference (within the BLUE frame on the map) around the town of Dresden (bottom right, bright points) along the Elbe river. Flooded areas are clearly visible in blue . Click to zoom in.
	ENVISAT ASAR Image Mode, pol. HH swath 4 acquired on 19 August 2002, at 20:53 UTC (ORANGE frame on the map) over Elbe valley between Wittenberg and Wittenberge. Click to zoom in.
		Image detail over Wittenberge (click to enlarge at 1024 x 768 pixels)
		Image detail over Tangermunde (click to enlarge at 1024 x 768 pixels)
		Image detail over Wittenberg (click to enlarge at 1024 x 768 pixels)
	ERS-2 SAR multitemporal image over Elbe and Havel rivers acquired on the 22 August (ref. 13 August 1998). The city of Berlin is clearly visible at the top-left of the image.
		Image detail over Rathenow on the Havel river (click to enlarge 754 x 740)
		Image detail over Dessau (left bottom) and Roslau (left center) (click to enlarge 728 x 610)
		Image detail over Wittenberg (click to enlarge 984 x 727)
	ERS-2 SAR image acquired on the 16 August 2002 over Czech Republic (RED frame on the map, upper part). The bohemian town of Ceske Budejovice (known as Bohmisch Budweis), at the junction of the Vtlava and Malse river, is visible on the right of the image. Click on the image to enlarge the area around the town.
	ERS-2 SAR image acquired on the 16 August 2002 over Austria (RED frame on the map, lower part). The town of Linz, on the Danube river, is clearly visible as a cluster of very bright points. Click to zoom in.
	TERRA MODIS image acquired on the 18 August 2002 (it covers and area larger than the map). Click to zoom in.
	ENVISAT MERIS Reduced Resolution image acquired on the 16 August 2002 (it covers an area larger than the map). Click to zoom in.
	ENVISAT MERIS Full Resolution image centred on the Elba river, crossing Czech Republic and Germany from the South East to the North West, acquired on 19 August (it covers an area larger than the map). Part of the Danube river in Austria is also visible at the bottom right. This image is a spectral combination of MERIS bands 15, 13 and 9, respectively centered at 900 nm, 865 nm and 708.75 nm. The image is down-sampled for size reason.
		Detail of the image along the Elbe river region. The rivers, the flooded areas and the towns are visible in blue. The pixel size of this down-sampled image is around 400 m.