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ALOS-2 data available from ASF
The ASF DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 ScanSAR data. These are wide beam, level 1.1 (SLC) products suitable for interferometric processing. PALSAR-2 is an L-band SAR instrument and, so, is comparable to the SAR sensor onboard the upcoming NISAR satellite mission.
Through a continuing agreement between NASA and the Japanese government, data are being transferred to ASF to create a mirror archive of JAXA’s global ALOS-2 ScanSAR holdings. To date, 3.8 PB of data have been received from JAXA, and new data will be released as they are received and ingested at ASF.
Collaboration between JAXA and ASF began in 1992 when the ASF satellite tracking ground station provided support for the JERS-1 satellite and in 1996 for the ADEOS satellite. In 2006, ASF was selected by JAXA to be the Americas archive and distribution node for data received from the first ALOS satellite mission.
ALOS-2 ScanSAR data are free and open and can currently be downloaded using NASA Earthdata Search. The data will also be available very soon through Vertex and programmatically using ASFSearch and Python Search Module (asf_search).
For more information, contact us at [email protected]
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