Saturday, May 31, 2014

Poyang Lake, China


Image of China’s Poyang lake from the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) on the Sentinel-1A satellite, acquired on 12 May 2014 in dual polarization. The radar gathers information in either horizontal or vertical polarizations, shown here as a composite (HH in red, HV in green and HH-HV in blue).

Poyang is just one of the many project areas of the collaborative Chinese-European Dragon Program, which marked its ten-year anniversary this week. Read more.

Image credit: ESA

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