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Bucharest, Romania
SAR Orbit number: 48415
24 July 2004

This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image shows the city of Bucharest (large bright area), the capital of Romania and the country's principal economic centre, located in the southeast of the country along the banks of the Dîmbovita River. The city has a total surface of 226 km2. The topography of the area is predominantly low-lying wetlands.

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: 21 April 2004, Green: 07 January 2004, Blue: 30 June 2004
• Orbit number: 48415, 45910, 41902
• Instrument features: 25 metre resolution

Coordinates:

NE Lat/Long: N 44.74 / E 26.57
NW Lat/Long: N 44.93 / E 25.36
SW Lat/Long: N 44.06 / E 25.10
SE Lat/Long: N 43.87 / E 26.30