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Buenos Aires Argentina
SAR Orbit number: 39536
12 November 2002

This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image is centred over Buenos Aires, the city capitol of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America.

Buenos Aires is located on the southern side of the La Plata River, on the southeast coast of the South American continent and covers an area of almost 3,885 square kilometres. The terrain of the area consists almost entirely of a flat or gently undulating plain. The various colour patches to the west and south of the city indicate cultivated agricultural fields.

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: 12 November 200201, Green: 01 May 2001 , Blue: 05 August 1997
• Orbit numbers: 39536, 31520, 11981
• Frame: 6489
• Instrument features: 25 metre resolution

Coordinates:

NE Lat/Long: S 34.21 / W 58.18
NW Lat/Long: S 34.44 / W 59.20
SE Lat/Long: S 35.06 / W 57.90
SW Lat/Long: S 35.26 / W 58.93