Chernobyl - 20 years later
Image acquired on April 11, 2006 by the SPOT V satellite 2,5 meter resolution over Chernobyl, 20 years after the nuclear accident.
Venezia (Venice)
This Landsat 7 image was acquired on Aug. 26, 2001. It is a pan-sharpened false-color composite of ETM+ bands 7, 5, and 3. Using the panchromatic band (ETM+ band 8) to sharpen an image creates an effective spatial resolution of 15m.
Alpi, Appennini e laghi
This Envisat image shows the snow-capped Alps, the Apennines mountain chain (visible running north to south down Italy) and several prominent European lakes.
This image was acquired by Envisat`s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 10 April 2007, working in Full Resolution mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 metres. Credits: ESA
Napoli, Italia from ALOS
This image of the Gulf of Naples in Italy was acquired on 28 April 2006 by the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type-2 (AVNIR-2) onboard ALOS satellite. This close range view highlights the wake of the ships in the gulf and the shadows of the clouds.
Credits:
JAXA, provided by ESA
Envisat - Scie di Condensazione
This Envisat image over the North Sea captures numerous aircraft condensation trails, or `contrails', as well as parts of the Netherlands (upper right), Belgium (lower right) and England (lower left).
This image was acquired by Envisat`s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 2 March 2009, working in Full Resolution mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 m.
Napoli, Italia from ERS-2
This Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) multitemporal colour composite image shows Naples and its bay. The bay lies within an important volcanic province, with the volcano Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegrean Fields (Campi Flegrei) area being its active and ancient primary testimonies. The different colours shown by the sea in the bay indicate sea surface roughness caused by the winds which occurred during the dates of acquisition. The colour patches to the north of Naples represent crop fields. The ima
Alaska
Fairbanks, Alaska October 1, 1999. Bands 4,3,2 have been used to highlight healthy vegetation (shown in red) along the river. Space Imaging`s IKONOS satellite four-meter false-color image. (800x600 414Kb)
Phytoplankton bloom
A large aquamarine-coloured phytoplankton bloom is shown stretching across the length of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean in this image, captured on 6 June 2006 by Envisat`s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), a dedicated ocean colour sensor able to identify phytoplankton concentrations. (2312x2265 1,15 Mb) Credit: ESA
