Alaska Satellite Facility
The Alaska Satellite Facility is part of the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, located on the Troth Yeddha’ campus.
- ASF downlinks, processes, archives, and distributes remote-sensing data to scientific users worldwide
- ASF promotes, facilitates, and participates in the advancement of remote sensing to support national and international Earth science research, field operations, and commercial applications
- ASF is committed to providing high-quality data and services quickly and reliably
- Coming Soon! NISAR — A dedicated NASA and ISRO SAR satellite mission, optimized for studying hazards and global environmental change. ASF will be the NISAR Data Hub!
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Quick Links
- ALOS PALSAR
- Data Recipes (Tutorials)
- Cloud Computing Tutorials
- How to Create Cloud Storage Using AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)
- How to Create a Basic Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) Instance
- How to Move files in and out of an AWS EC2 Instance – Windows
- How to Connect to EC2 with SSH Mac OS X
- How to Connect to your EC2 Instance using PuTTY V1.1
- How to Configure AWS for Running the GMT5SAR InSAR Recipe
- How to Create and Unwrap an Interferogram with GMT5SAR Script in the Cloud — Windows
- How to Create and Unwrap an Interferogram with GMT5SAR Script in the Cloud — OS X
- How to Automatically Generate a Radiometrically Terrain-Corrected (RTC) Sentinel-1 Image using Cloud Computing
- How to Create a Billing Alarm
- Contact Us

ASF Chief Scientist receives IEEE award
Dr. Franz Meyer, the chief scientist for ASF, has been recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for

The ASF Sentinel-1 Burst Archive is complete!
This exciting news was recently announced by Dr. Forrest Williams, Senior Research Software Engineer, Alaska Satellite Facility: Super excited about
Scientist Spotlight

Zhong Lu, Ph.D.
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Zhong Lu, Ph.D.
Zhong Lu has a story about Syun-Ichi Akasofu, the groundbreaking aurora scientist and former director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. It’s a






