{"id":219800,"date":"2014-04-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"30bf2ebb8ed59fc4bf87c0d75b4fa582"},"modified":"2014-04-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:00:00","slug":"brussels-from-sentinel-1a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219800","title":{"rendered":"Brussels from Sentinel-1A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/04\/brussels_from_sentinel-1a\/14476008-2-eng-GB\/Brussels_from_Sentinel-1A_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAcquired on 12 April 2014 at 17:18 GMT (19:18 CEST), just nine days after launch, this first image from Sentinel-1A captures Brussels and surrounds in Belgium. It was acquired in the satellite\u2019s \u2018strip map\u2019 mode, which has a swath width of 80 km, and in dual polarisation. The image also shows a more detailed view of the city in the \u2018zoom in\u2019. Antwerp harbour is also visible in the top left. The green colours correspond to vegetation, red\u2013blue to urban areas, white to high-density urban areas and black to waterways and low-reflective areas such as airport runways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/04\/brussels_from_sentinel-1a\/14476008-2-eng-GB\/Brussels_from_Sentinel-1A_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAcquired on 12 April 2014 at 17:18 GMT (19:18 CEST), just nine days after launch, this first image from Sentinel-1A captures Brussels and surrounds in Belgium. It was acquired in the satellite\u2019s \u2018strip map\u2019 mode, which has a swath width of 80 km, and in dual polarisation. The image also shows a more detailed view of the city in the \u2018zoom in\u2019. Antwerp harbour is also visible in the top left. The green colours correspond to vegetation, red\u2013blue to urban areas, white to high-density urban areas and black to waterways and low-reflective areas such as airport runways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}