MISSION 22KE — Los Angeles, United States

The Los Angeles basin from 705 kilometres up, the street grid running unbroken from the Santa Monica Mountains down to the Pacific. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.

Magnified detail from the Los Angeles capture, centre of frame.

Frame detail

MAG ×1.75 — 30 M GSD

Observation

What the pass recorded.

The Los Angeles basin from 705 kilometres up, the street grid running unbroken from the Santa Monica Mountains down to the Pacific. At 30 metres per pixel the freeway corridors and the concrete channel of the Los Angeles River stay legible across the whole width of the frame.

ORBIT: //ELIPSE 33°INC: SSO 98.2°ALT: 705 KM

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Telemetry

As flown.

The pass that produced the frame above, as it was recorded: where the sensor was, what it was pointed at and what the sky was doing at the moment of capture.

Coordinates: 34.0522, -118.2437
Position: 34.05° N / 118.24° W
City: Los Angeles
Admin area: California
Country: United States
Captured: 04.05.2001
Sensor: LANDSAT + SRTM
Altitude: 705 km
Ground sample: 30 m
Pass azimuth: 104°
Off-nadir: 4.1°
Cloud cover: 2%

The composed plate for mission 22KE: the capture above, the mission sheet below. — Composed by the same pipeline that produces the print file: the capture above, the mission sheet below. Shown watermarked, at preview resolution, in a display mount.

Deliverable

How it would be printed.

Desk scale. Reads as a document.

Format: 30 × 40 CM
Imperial: 12 × 16 IN
Ratio: 3:4
Finish: Framed
Print facility: US / RENO, NV

Source

This reference frame is a public-domain NASA / USGS Landsat product. It stands in for a customer capture, which is tasked commercially and delivered at higher resolution.

Credit: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03376
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALos_Angeles_JPLLandsat.jpg

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