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Imagery of Maine\u2019s Mount Desert Island captured by NISAR\u2019s L-band radar on 21 Aug 2025. NASA\/JPL-Caltech.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Preliminary images are in<\/a> from the newly launched NISAR<\/abbr><\/a> Earth-observing radar satellite. A joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), NISAR will use L-band and S-band synthetic aperture radar to produce images of land cover, soil moisture, vegetation, sea and ice and so forth at resolutions of five to ten metres<\/a>. (For comparison, SRTM<\/a><\/abbr>\u2019s resolution is one arcsecond\u201430 metres at the equator.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preliminary images are in from the newly launched NISAR Earth-observing radar satellite. A joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), NISAR will use L-band and S-band synthetic aperture radar to produce… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo","date":"2025-09-27T12:57:47+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lzsztja3so2o","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lzsztja3so2o\",\"cid\":\"bafyreibhodvwdt7f367q3xmab4vnc2hzkam75h2wdcqoqkad5cobi62tai\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreif3rp5cdlvab2rvecuyqlz5v36x6z4bputmwmhxo3l7hc6jgwjnjy\",\"rev\":\"3lzsztjabo62o\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1312,8],"tags":[1753,12,200,16],"class_list":["post-1844992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-agriculture","category-weather-and-climate","tag-isro","tag-nasa","tag-radar","tag-remote-sensing","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2043,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/05\/new-orleans-is-sinking\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844992,"position":0},"title":"New Orleans Is Sinking","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 May 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"\"New Orleans and surrounding areas continue to sink at highly variable rates due to a combination of natural geologic and human-induced processes,\" according to the findings of\u00a0a new study\u00a0that\u00a0maps the rate at which New Orleans is sinking. 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