Earth from Space: Lisbon, Portugal, and surroundingsIn this composite image you can see
Lisbon in Portugal and surroundings, imaged by the
Operational Land Imager (
OLI) aboard
Landsat 8. The images were taken
December 3rd, 2015 at 4:40pm GMT.
LisbonLisbon (
Portuguese: Lisboa) is the
capital of Portugal. It has a population of about 552,000 people. The metropolitan area has a population of over 2.8 million people. Lisbon is located at the estuary (
https://goo.gl/gcp6Pn) of the
Tagus River (
Portuguese: Tejo), the estuary is called "Mar da Palha" (
Sea of Straw) by the Portuguese. With a length of 1,038 kilometers (
645 miles) the Tagus is the longest river on the
Iberian Peninsula (
https://goo.gl/I6gC90), it empties into the
Atlantic Ocean. Lisbon is
one of the oldest cities in the world (
https://goo.gl/6a8qMg).
The area on Google Maps:
https://goo.gl/cgqyN7More on the features in the image:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TagusTechnical DataFor those interested, here the
technical data for this image. The image is a combination of a pansharpened OLI Band 4-3-2 (
natural color) image with an OLI Band 7-5-1 (
SWIR, NIR) image to get more colors and distinction for vegetation. The resulting
colors are near natural but slightly oversaturated and contrast is slightly enhanced. Image scale is 30 meters/pixel.
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