Data Users Bulletin

The International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) held their 10th annual meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, from

NASA DAAC Annual published an article featuring ASF data on the DAAC Alliance Web site.

The Workshop will explore how information from SAR and SAR/optical sensors can be used to map agricultural land cover/land use and

ASF, in its role as the Americas ALOS Data Node (AADN), is hosting the 3rd ALOS Joint PI Symposium in Kona, Hawaii on 9-13 November. This meeting of Earth scientists using ALOS data  follows successful symposia in Rhodes, Greece and Kyoto, Japan. The week-long conference will address research using all three of the ALOS sensors: PRISM, AVNIR-2, and PALSAR. The approximately 25 planned sessions include Geohazards, Floods and Wetlands, Ocean Processes, Soil Moisture, Land-use classification, Polarimetry, and Ionospheric effects. In addtition, short courses will be offered in the use of ASF's MapReady Tool and ESA's PolSARPro and BEAM software. 

The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) provides courses in both Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing and SAR Interferometry. Franz Meyer, Ph.D., a Research Assistant Professor at the Geophysical Institute, has taught several of these sought-after courses, including an annual-spring class offered for credit at UAF entitled, “Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology,” and a class in partnership with George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia, entitled, “Principles and Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).”  Dr. Meyer reports that the SAR course has always been a very interactive class, which makes it fun to teach. The geology course that Dr.