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Samarkand on the Zarafshan river, where irrigation draws a green corridor through dry loess country. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.

MISSION 75TE

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

LANDSAT-8 / OLI · DECLASSIFIED

Magnified detail from the Samarkand capture, centre of frame.

Frame detail

MAG ×1.75 — 30 M GSD

Observation

What the pass recorded.

Samarkand on the Zarafshan river, where irrigation draws a green corridor through dry loess country. The edge of the oasis is abrupt: cultivation stops exactly where the canal network stops.

ORBIT: //ELIPSE 34°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
39.6270, 66.9750
Position
39.63° N / 66.97° E
City
Samarkand
Admin area
Samarqand
Country
Uzbekistan
Captured
25.10.2015
Sensor
LANDSAT-8 / OLI
Altitude
705 km
Ground sample
30 m
Pass azimuth
99°
Off-nadir
2.9°
Cloud cover
5%
The composed plate for mission 75TE: 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.

Wall scale. Individual rooftops resolve.

Format
70 × 100 CM
Imperial
28 × 40 IN
Ratio
7:10
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://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ image ID LC81550322015298LGN00 and LC81550332015298LGN00
Source
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASamarkand_city_and_vicinities%2C_Uzbekistan%2C_LandSat-8_near_natural_colors_satellite_image%2C_25-OCT-2015.jpg

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