Preview image - DLR site Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria - E-SAR
Preview image - DLR site Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria - E-SAR
Oberpfaffenhofen Special Airport is home to the DLR Research Center Oberpfaffenhofen, the airport operator EDMO GmbH, RUAG Deutschland GmbH and a number of other companies. The airborne SAR systems E-SAR and F-SAR - on board a Do-228 - are at home here (DLR site: center right of the runway, bottom left of the runway: industrial area with RUAG, below: Autobahn A96 and Gilching, top right edge of the picture: the town of Oberpfaffenhofen, the town in the left half of the picture: Unterbrunn).
Location: DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria
Time: August 26, 2002, 12:06-12:09 (UTC)
Instrument: E-SAR
Carrier system: Aircraft (Dornier Do228-212)
Wavelength: 23cm (L-Band)
Polarization: HH-HV-VV (red-green-blue)
Image content: Radar reflectivity in three polarizations
Image geometry: Oblique range projected onto flat ground (ground range)
Image size: 3845 x 2134 (section from original image)
Pixel size: 0.92m x 1.49m (flight direction x slant range)
Resolution: 3.00m x 2.20m, looks: 4 x 1
