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Los Angeles, USA

8 April 2005

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This Envisat multicolour radar composite image shows much of the coastal conurbation of Los Angeles in Southern California. It is made up of three Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) images acquired on different dates, with separate colours assigned to each acquisition to highlight differences between them: red for 14 June 2004, blue for 23 August 2004, green for 1 November 2004.

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