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JPL OPERA Level 2 products available from ASF

The Alaska Satellite Facility announces the availability of new data products from the Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing ...
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NISAR Sample Data Now Available

The NISAR project team has created sample products using JAXA ALOS-1 PALSAR data as a surrogate for NISAR. The sample ...
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Sentinel-1 data file size increases

A result of the transition made by ESA to its new Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem is that Sentinel-1 data files ...
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NASA announces that RADARSAT-1 data are Open Data at ASF

NASA has announced that all RADARSAT-1 data archived at the Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center (ASF DAAC) are ...
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Global SAR Mosaic Datasets Available from JAXA

Explore the Earth like never before with Global Mosaics and Maps created from data acquired by the JERS-1 (1992-98), ALOS ...
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ASF Receives New NASA Contract Award

The Alaska Satellite Facility was recently awarded NASA’s Earth Radar Data Operations Management contract for another 5 years. The continued ...
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ASF Vertex Data Search is now available in Spanish!

In response to many requests from our users, the powerful Vertex search application is now available in a Spanish version. ...
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ASF OpenScienceLab featured this month

The NASA Earthdata website currently highlights OpenSciecneLab (OSL) in its Data Tool in Focus section. OSL is an ASF service ...
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JPL uses data from ASF for the ARIA Project

The JPL/CalTech ARIA Project utilizes SAR data and GPS for detecting and measuring ground deformation and creating predictive models. Cloud-based ...
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ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 data available over the Turkey/Syria earthquake region

ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 ScanSAR L1.1 (SLC, full-aperture focusing) products acquired over the area of the recent Turkey/Syria earthquakes are now freely available ...
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On Demand Sentinel-1 RTC is now available at 10-m pixel spacing and in dB scale!

The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) has released new processing options for On Demand Sentinel-1 Radiometric Terrain Correction (RTC). RTC products can now be ...
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Sentinel-1B satellite mission ends

The European Space Agency announced today that efforts to repair the failed C-band SAR sensor onboard the Sentinel-1B satellite have ...
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