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Vienna, Austria
SAR Orbit number: 48451
28 June 2004

This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image is centred over the city of Vienna, Austria (large bright area). Vienna is situated on the Danube river (black line that traverses the image from the top left corner and continues on a southeastern course past the city on to Bratislava on the Slovakian border. The grey patches indicate forests consisting mainly of fir, pine, and oak trees. The various colour patches throughout the image are 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: 17 May 2004, Green: 26 July 2004, Blue: 24 March 2003
• Orbit number: 47449, 48451, 41437
• Frame: 963
• Instrument features: 25 metre resolution

Coordinates:

NE Lat/Long: N 48.81 / E 16.80
NW Lat/Long: N 48.62 / E 15.49
SW Lat/Long: N 47.72 / E 15.81
SE Lat/Long: N 47.91 / E 17.09