Last updated on March 13, 2014 at 9:43 EDT Spanish and French
Coasts 1010 of 1097  Spanish and French Coasts  January 17, 2006
This ASAR Wide Swath image of 405 km wide by 1235 km long shows
in a single acquisition the east of Spain, the west of France
and a part of the north of Africa.  This image is a nice
demonstration of one of the main features of the Wide Swath
Mode, which is the capability to cover more than 400 Km in range
using the ASAR beam steering in elevation and the ScanSAR
technique.  The Pyrenees mountains chain, natural borders
between Spain and France, can be easily identified in the center
of the image. The brighter land areas are major European cities.
The city of Barcelona in Catalonia appears particularly bright
in the center right part of the image. The small dark patch in
the south of the city near the coast is the mountain of
Montjuich, where took place the 1929 International Exposition.
The image shows how the Barcelona urban area extends towards the
north, along the main road axes,