Mt. Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain

This image of Mt. Fuji – Japan’s highest mountain (3 776 metres) – was acquired on 23 September 2006 with Envisat’s ASAR (Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar) instrument and transmitted via Kodama to Tsukuba where it was recorded and pre-processed by the Envisat data-processing equipment. This pre-processed data was then transmitted via a data link to ESRIN - ESA’s Earth Observation Centre in Italy – for final processing into data ‘products’ and data quality checks.