Below is a collection of headlines, notices, and archived newsletters from the Alaska Satellite Facility’s News & Notes. View the latest newsletters below, and for training notices click here.
HyP3 On Demand offers Sentinel-1 SLC burst processing
December 23, 2023
Listen to Dr. Forrest Williams of ASF announce the news at this year’s American Geophysical Union meeting!
JPL OPERA Level 2 products available from ASF
December 22, 2023
The Alaska Satellite Facility announces the availability of new data products from the Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing ...
Read More NISAR Sample Data Now Available
December 19, 2023
The NISAR project team has created sample products using JAXA ALOS-1 PALSAR data as a surrogate for NISAR. The sample ...
Read More Sentinel-1 data file size increases
October 18, 2023
A result of the transition made by ESA to its new Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem is that Sentinel-1 data files ...
Read More NASA announces that RADARSAT-1 data are Open Data at ASF
October 2, 2023
NASA has announced that all RADARSAT-1 data archived at the Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center (ASF DAAC) are ...
Read More Global SAR Mosaic Datasets Available from JAXA
August 7, 2023
Explore the Earth like never before with Global Mosaics and Maps created from data acquired by the JERS-1 (1992-98), ALOS ...
Read More ASF Receives New NASA Contract Award
June 27, 2023
The Alaska Satellite Facility was recently awarded NASA’s Earth Radar Data Operations Management contract for another 5 years. The continued ...
Read More ASF Vertex Data Search is now available in Spanish!
June 22, 2023
In response to many requests from our users, the powerful Vertex search application is now available in a Spanish version. ...
Read More ASF OpenScienceLab featured this month
May 31, 2023
The NASA Earthdata website currently highlights OpenSciecneLab (OSL) in its Data Tool in Focus section. OSL is an ASF service ...
Read More JPL uses data from ASF for the ARIA Project
May 31, 2023
The JPL/CalTech ARIA Project utilizes SAR data and GPS for detecting and measuring ground deformation and creating predictive models. Cloud-based ...
Read More ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 data available over the Turkey/Syria earthquake region
March 2, 2023
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 ...
Read More On Demand Sentinel-1 RTC is now available at 10-m pixel spacing and in dB scale!
February 28, 2023
The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) has released new processing options for On Demand Sentinel-1 Radiometric Terrain Correction (RTC). RTC products can now be ...
Read More Sentinel-1B satellite mission ends
December 14, 2022
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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