{"id":222109,"date":"2014-11-21T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"42de4007d589e7ad73c225de7f1edaf8"},"modified":"2014-11-21T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T09:05:00","slug":"tokyo-bay-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=222109","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Bay, Japan"},"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\/11\/tokyo_bay_japan\/15062197-1-eng-GB\/Tokyo_Bay_Japan_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis image from Sentinel-1A\u2019s radar on 11 July shows Tokyo Bay in Japan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTokyo\u2019s centre lies mainly south of the Arakawa River. Other visible rivers on this image are the Edo River to its north and the Tama River just to its south, with all three streaming into Tokyo Bay. At the mouth of the Tama River we can see the runways of Haneda Airport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNote the difference between the area northwest of Tokyo Bay \u2013 where bright radar reflections show dense construction \u2013 and its southeastern opposite. This area with an overall brownish colour is the site of the Minami-B\u014ds\u014d Quasi-National Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGreater Tokyo is home to nearly 38 million people, making it the world\u2019s largest \u2018megacity\u2019 (a metropolitan area with more than 10 million people). Today, there are over 30 megacities across the globe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUrban areas are home to over half of the world\u2019s population, and are rapidly changing environments. As more people move from rural areas to cities, this growth needs to be monitored to help it proceed on a sustainable basis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nObservations based on high-resolution satellite data provide essential information for city planning and for the sustainable development of urban regions. They can be used to monitor air pollution, water availability and extreme temperatures.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRadar in particular can be used to monitor slight ground movements down to a few millimetres \u2013valuable information for urban planners.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2014\/11\/Earth_from_Space_Megacity\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>.<\/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\/11\/tokyo_bay_japan\/15062197-1-eng-GB\/Tokyo_Bay_Japan_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis image from Sentinel-1A\u2019s radar on 11 July shows Tokyo Bay in Japan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTokyo\u2019s centre lies mainly south of the Arakawa River. Other visible rivers on this image are the Edo River to its north and the Tama River just to its south, with all three streaming into Tokyo Bay. At the mouth of the Tama River we can see the runways of Haneda Airport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNote the difference between the area northwest of Tokyo Bay \u2013 where bright radar reflections show dense construction \u2013 and its southeastern opposite. This area with an overall brownish colour is the site of the Minami-B\u014ds\u014d Quasi-National Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGreater Tokyo is home to nearly 38 million people, making it the world\u2019s largest \u2018megacity\u2019 (a metropolitan area with more than 10 million people). Today, there are over 30 megacities across the globe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUrban areas are home to over half of the world\u2019s population, and are rapidly changing environments. As more people move from rural areas to cities, this growth needs to be monitored to help it proceed on a sustainable basis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nObservations based on high-resolution satellite data provide essential information for city planning and for the sustainable development of urban regions. They can be used to monitor air pollution, water availability and extreme temperatures.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRadar in particular can be used to monitor slight ground movements down to a few millimetres \u2013valuable information for urban planners.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2014\/11\/Earth_from_Space_Megacity\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>.<\/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-222109","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\/222109","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=222109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222109\/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=222109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}