January 27, 2011
Image of the Day: Flooding in Queensland, Australia Viewed from Orbit, January 2011
This Envisat image shows the flooded area – represented by the blue colour – south of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia. Envisat acquired this multi-temporal false colour image with its onboard Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument, working in wide swath medium resolution (WSM) mode, in January 2011.