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Geology Picture of the Week, April 27-May 3, 2003
European Space Agency ^ | April 25, 2003

Posted on 04/29/2003 8:26:41 AM PDT by cogitator

"This interferogram used radar images from ESA’s ERS-2 and Envisat satellites to show an area of approximately 30 x 35 km around the city of Las Vegas in the US. The city is visible in the centre of the image as an area of bright colours, with the city’s major thoroughfares appearing as straight dark lines. The image was produced by the Oberpfaffenhofen Remote Sensing Technology Institute of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) under an ESA project to study the uses of joint ERS and Envisat data.

An interferogram is an image generated by analysing the differences between two radar signals taken over the same area on Earth.

Each colour cycle in the image, from blue to red to yellow, represents an elevation change of 8.4 metres. The effect produces bands of colours showing the topography of the city and surrounding area."


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: envisat; ers2; interferometry; lasvegas; radar
Runner-up for this week (go to link for small and large images):

Chikurachki Volcano

1 posted on 04/29/2003 8:26:41 AM PDT by cogitator
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2 posted on 04/29/2003 8:27:38 AM PDT by cogitator
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Too cool. The slanted, thick looking V has got to be McCarran Internation Airport. The horizontal leg has a blue splotch about dead center on the bottom side - that's about where I work.

Thanks, interesting pic.

LVM

3 posted on 04/29/2003 8:42:05 AM PDT by LasVegasMac
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Quite nice.
4 posted on 04/29/2003 11:09:59 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the Nazgul. Beware the Uruk-Hai...)
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