Notices

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 from JAXA. Level 2.2 ScanSAR products are also available to download. JAXA is providing these data through their G-Portal search and download application, through Google Earth Engine, and through the AWS Open Repository (direct S3 bucket access located in the …

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The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) has released new processing options for On Demand Sentinel-1 Radiometric Terrain Correction (RTC). RTC products can now be output at a pixel spacing of 10 meters and in decibel (dB) scale. The new options are available on Vertex, and in the HyP3 API and SDK. ASF offers On Demand processing for Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, including RTC. This process corrects …

On Demand Sentinel-1 RTC is now available at 10-m pixel spacing and in dB scale! Read More »

The European Space Agency announced today that efforts to repair the failed C-band SAR sensor onboard the Sentinel-1B satellite have not been successful. Therefore, the mission has been terminated. The satellite will be de-orbited starting after the Sentinel-1C satellite has been launched and becomes operational, sometime during the third quarter of 2023. For more details, …

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Monthly Lecture ASF is playing an increasing role in support of NASA’s Earth Science mission. A monthly lecture series features ASF and ASF-related scientists discussing their use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in addressing the most pressing questions about our changing planet. The next lecture in the series is on August 26 with Dr. Ken Arnoult and Dr. Rudi Gens, …

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NASA and JPL will host a second OPERA project workshop on September 2, 2022. Participation is available in-person or virtually. The goals of this second workshop are to provide additional information on the products generated from satellite radar and optical instruments: For more details on the workshop and to register, visit the JPL Opera Workshops website.