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Oslo Norway
SAR Orbit number: 47285
06 May 2004

This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image is centred over the city of Oslo (bright area centre image), the capital of Norway.

The city lies on the Akerselva at the head of the Oslofjorden in southeast of the country. The fjord, which is nearly bisected by the Nesodden peninsula opposite Oslo and lies to the south. The landscape is mostly high plateaus and rugged mountains broken by fertile valleys and small scattered plains, where the various coloured patches 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: 04 October 2001, Green: 06 May 2004 , Blue: 14 March 1996
• Orbit numbers: 33758, 47285, 4700
• Instrument features: 25 meter resolution

Coordinates:

NE Lat/Long: N 60.19 / E 11.96
NW Lat/Long: N 60.41 / E 10.24
SW Lat/Long: N 59.53 / E 9.81
SE Lat/Long: N 59.31 / E 11.48