China Hi-res SAR Image Satellite Sends Back Pictures

China on Thursday published the first pictures transmitted back to earth from Gaofen-3, the country’s first C-band high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite with a resolution of one meter. These images, published by State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND), include Beijing Capital International Airport, Xiamen City of Fujian Province, the northern port of Tianjin, China’s forth largest freshwater lake Hongze and the Yellow Sea. Gaofen-3 was lau