New York, USA - 2003
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New York USA This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image is centred over the New York City area. It is sited among an archipelago of islands astride the Atlantic Ocean off the Eastern Seaboard of North America, surrounding the New York Harbor. The city itself has been built on the three major islands of Manhattan, Staten Island (south), and on western Long Island (Brooklyn and Queens), as well as on the mainland in the Bronx (north). There are also some smaller islands in the surrounding waters. The Hudson River flows from the north into New York Bay, becoming a tidal estuary that separates the Bronx and Manhattan from the great state of New Jersey. The East River, really a tidal strait, stretches from the Long Island Sound to New York Bay, separating the Bronx and Manhattan from Long Island. Also visible are the JFK (centre image) and Newark (centre left) International Airports. The prominent green rectangle on Manhattan island is Central Park. The bright red area on the western shore of New York Harbour corresponds to the Port Jersey warehouse area and container terminal, where large objects, presumably containers, in different positions on the three acquisition dates result in pure red, green, blue and pink pixels. Likewise, in the harbour, blocks of pure blue, green, or red pixels indicate the position of a ship at that particular date and time. 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:
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NE Lat/Long: N 40.87 / W 73.00 |
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