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Florence Italy
SAR Orbit number: 50398
9 December 2004

This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image is centred over the city of Florence, Italy (bright area centre image), situated in central Italy.

The images illustrates an area with a varied and complex morphology; ranges of mountains (to the north) and hills alternate with intermontane basins and strips of plain. Also visible is the course of the Arno river, where it crosses the image from Mount Falterona (near the city of Arezzo, in Casentino area), through the city of Florence and proceeds onward towards the Tyrrhenian Sea. 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: 09 December 2004, Green: 30 September 2004, Blue: 21 July 2004
• Orbit number: 50398, 49396, 48394
• Instrument features: 25 meter resolution

Coordinates:

• NE Lat/Long: N 44.25 / E 11.41
• NW Lat/Long: N 44.12 / E 10.29
• SE Lat/Long: N 43.28 / E 11.59
• SW Lat/Long: N 43.19 / E 10.45