 |  TerraSAR-X satellite data reveals destruction caused by tsunami in Japan
 18 March 2011
The German Remote Sensing Data Center (Deutsches
Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum; DFD) and the German Space Operations Center
(GSOC), both of which are part of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches
Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), were continuing to provide as much data
as possible from the two German radar satellites, TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X, for
the assessment of damage caused by the tsunami in Japan. Radar data, in
contrast to data from optical satellites, can be acquired independently of cloud
cover or time of day and allow precise identification of the flooded and destroyed
areas on the east coast of Japan.
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