16 March 2011 The flooded Higashi-Matsushima airport, near
Sendai This radar image, acquired by the German Earth
observation satellite TerraSAR-X on 12 March 2011 at 21:43 CET,
shows the impact of the tsunami on Higashi-Matsushima Airport
and the port of Ishinomaki, near Sendai, on the east coast of
Japan. The blue areas indicate the flooding; the magenta-
coloured areas show the extent of the destroyed infrastructure.
DLR (CC-BY 3.0). The port of Sendai after the tsunami This
TerraSAR-X image, acquired on 12 March 2011, shows that the port
of the Japanese city of Sendai has been devastated by the
tsunami. The magenta-coloured areas reveal the extent of damage
in the form of boulders and debris deposits; the blue areas are
flooded. 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 für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), are
continuing to provide as much data as possible