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Athens, Greece
SAR Orbit number: 42403
31 May 2003

This ERS-2 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image shows an area of centred over Sterea Ellas (Central Greece).

The city of Athens is visible as a bright white area centre left of the image. To the left of the city is the natural harbour of Pireás, which is the port of the city capital, and where intense naval traffic, shown as coloured dots (each dot corresponding to the date of acquisition) may be observed. To the northeast is the mountainous island of Evvoia.

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: 31 January 2004, Green: 31 May 2003, Blue: 31 September 2003
• Orbit number: 45910, 42403, 43906
• Frame: 2842
• Instrument features: 25 metre resolution

Coordinates:

NE Lat/Long: N 38.24 / E 24.70
NW Lat/Long: N 38.43 / E 23.60
SE Lat/Long: N 37.36 / E 24.45
SW Lat/Long: N 37.54 / E 23.36