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Ankara, Turkey
SAR Orbit number: 47928
20 June 2004

This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image is over the city of Ankara (large bright area), the capital of Turkey, located in the central Anatolia region. It is situated upon a steep, rocky hill, which rises 152.4 metres above the Anatolian plateau, on the left bank of the Enguri Su river.

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: 20 June 2004, Green: 27 April 2003, Blue: 19 October 2003
• Orbit number: 47928, 41916, 44421
• Frame: 2799
• Instrument features: 25 metre resolution

Coordinates:

NE Lat/Long: N 40.40 / E 33.19
NW Lat/Long: N 40.58 / E 32.06
SW Lat/Long: N 39.69 / E 31.81
SE Lat/Long: N 39.50 / E 32.93