{"id":227909,"date":"2015-04-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"165b1df27079465bb8d589249535896b"},"modified":"2015-04-17T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T08:00:00","slug":"centralsouthern-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=227909","title":{"rendered":"Central\/southern Italy"},"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\/2015\/04\/central_southern_italy\/15361843-1-eng-GB\/Central_southern_Italy_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPart of Italy\u2019s Molise, Apulia and Campania regions are pictured in this radar composite image from Sentinel-1A.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe area features two distinct types of terrain: the Apennine Mountains in the lower left and lowlands to the right. Known for its agricultural importance, the lowland area is known as the Tavoliere \u2013 a term that recalls the word <i>tavolo<\/i> meaning \u2018table\u2019. The word derives from the Latin term for tables on which Romans classified areas devoted to grazing or crops, called <i>Tabulae censuariae.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring the Middle Ages the area was mainly devoted to sheep farming. Following extensive work on fluvial regulation, wheat, tomatoes and olives, among other crops, are grown here today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWater bodies appear black in this radar image, such as the Adriatic Sea along the top. Separated from the sea by a thin strip of land is Lake L\u00e9sina \u2013 in the top right \u2013 which is famous for its eels.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOther lakes visible are Occhito (centre) and Guardialfiera (centre left).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBright white radar reflects show to the location of towns and cities. In the Apennines, we can see reflections come from Campobasso (lower left). Cities in the lowland and along the coast are more obvious.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image combines three radar scans from the Sentinel-1A satellite in October and December 2014. Focusing on the right side of the image, we can see how different colours represent changes between the acquisitions in the agricultural structures, due to plant growth or harvest.<\/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\/2015\/04\/central_southern_italy\/15361843-1-eng-GB\/Central_southern_Italy_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPart of Italy\u2019s Molise, Apulia and Campania regions are pictured in this radar composite image from Sentinel-1A.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe area features two distinct types of terrain: the Apennine Mountains in the lower left and lowlands to the right. Known for its agricultural importance, the lowland area is known as the Tavoliere \u2013 a term that recalls the word <i>tavolo<\/i> meaning \u2018table\u2019. The word derives from the Latin term for tables on which Romans classified areas devoted to grazing or crops, called <i>Tabulae censuariae.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring the Middle Ages the area was mainly devoted to sheep farming. Following extensive work on fluvial regulation, wheat, tomatoes and olives, among other crops, are grown here today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWater bodies appear black in this radar image, such as the Adriatic Sea along the top. Separated from the sea by a thin strip of land is Lake L\u00e9sina \u2013 in the top right \u2013 which is famous for its eels.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOther lakes visible are Occhito (centre) and Guardialfiera (centre left).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBright white radar reflects show to the location of towns and cities. In the Apennines, we can see reflections come from Campobasso (lower left). Cities in the lowland and along the coast are more obvious.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image combines three radar scans from the Sentinel-1A satellite in October and December 2014. Focusing on the right side of the image, we can see how different colours represent changes between the acquisitions in the agricultural structures, due to plant growth or harvest.<\/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-227909","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\/227909","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=227909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227909\/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=227909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}