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Los Angeles USA
SAR Orbit number: 43611
03 November 2003

This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image is centred over most of the city of Los Angeles (grey area), a large coastal metropolis located in southern California in the western United States.

The area is situated in a semitropical Mediterranean climate zone, with no significant seasonal changes, therefore resulting in a less colourful multitemporal coloured image. Visible landmarks are: the Port of Los Angeles, located on San Pedro Bay (centre left), the Los Angeles River, a seasonal river that flows through Los Angeles and empties into the San Pedro Bay, and the Santa Ana Mountain Range (centre left).

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: 23 August 2003, Green: 01 November 2003 , Blue: 05 April 2003
• Orbit number: 43611, 44613, 41607
• Frame: 2925
• Instrument features: 25 metre resolution

Coordinates:

NE Lat/Long: N 34.21 / W 117.18
NW Lat/Long: N 34.38 / W 118.26
SW Lat/Long: N 33.48 / W 118.49
SE Lat/Long: N 33.30 / W 117.45