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The swath width covered by the image is 715 km (444 miles); spatial resolution is 500 m (1,640 ft). To get your bearings at this scale, locate Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, PA on an atlas.
However, when compared to satellite data, aircraft sensors provide a relatively narrow swath width. A major problem with aircraft scanner data is the poor geometry of the data.
The swath width, the width of the area on the Earth's surface that the satellite can "see", is approximately 2,500 kilometers (about 1,500 miles).
 See also: Resolution, Cover, Image, Area, Satellite
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