Photo #: ISS054-E-54133 Date: Feb. 2018 Geographic Region: NETHERLANDS Feature: OUDDORP, GOES, ROOSENDAAL, MIDDELHARNIS, BRIELLE, HELLEVOETSLUIS |
Fighting Back the Sea The Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta (//www.delta-alliance.org/deltas/rhine-meuse-delta) along the southern coast of the Netherlands was captured in this Located about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Amsterdam, this system of islands, peninsulas, and waterways was once the site of a disastrous event: the North Sea Flood of 1953. On the night of January 31, 1953, a combination of storm-force winds and the spring tide created a storm surge that ravaged the low-lying Engineers had anticipated such a flood. In the late 1930s, the Rijkswaterstaat (Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management) commissioned studies showing that the sea defenses in the southwest river delta would be unable to withstand a major storm surge. Engineers proposed that all of the river mouths and sea inlets be dammed so the area could become less reliant on sea dikes. However, due to the scale of the project and the outbreak of World War II, construction was put on hold. By the time the flood occurred in 1953, only two river mouths had been closed off and the existing dikes had either been weakened by erosion or a lack of upkeep. In the aftermath, the Dutch government began repairing flood damage through the use of thousands of workers and military troops from the Netherlands and other countries. Within nine months, the final dike had been repaired on the island of Schouwen-Duiveland. In the following year, the Rijkswaterstaat initiated the Delta Works, a massive project to construct dams, storm surge barriers, and dikes. The final barriers were completed in 1997, and the Delta Works has been |
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Mission: | ISS054 |
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Roll - Frame: | E - 54133 |
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Geographical Name: | NETHERLANDS |
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Features: | OUDDORP, GOES, ROOSENDAAL, MIDDELHARNIS, BRIELLE, HELLEVOETSLUIS |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 51.7N x 4.1E |
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Film Exposure: | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
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Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 10 |
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Camera:: | N8 |
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Camera Tilt: | HO | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 290 |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | E | The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West |
Stereo?: | Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't |
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Date: | 20180225 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 092955 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 51.4N |
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Nadir Lon: | 1.7W |
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Sun Azimuth: | 135 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 214 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | 20 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
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