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Notices

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.

Going to AGU 2024? Attend the NISAR Union Session

The NISAR Science Team invites you to attend the NISAR Union Session at the AGU Fall Meeting 2024, held in Washington, D.C., from December 9–13, 2024.

This oral session will provide updates on the NISAR mission status across its science disciplines, share representative results, and discuss their implications for NASA’s future directions in geodetic and land cover microwave imaging, in line with this year’s AGU Theme, “What’s Next for Science.”

Please note that this session will not be available online.

Session Details:

Title: U34A – The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission Status and Implications for Future NASA Geodetic Imaging Observables
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 EST
Location: Ballroom A, Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
Session link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Session/226800

NASA Earthdata Webinar to Unveil New Website Prototype and Web Unification Project

Join NASA for an exclusive Earthdata webinar where attendees will get a first look at the upcoming NASA Earthdata website ...
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SIR-C dataset landing page available

The Alaska Satellite Facility DAAC is excited to announce the launch of a new dataset landing page, providing access to ...
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Sentinel-1 Orbits in Amazon S3

Sentinel-1 orbit files are now available in Amazon S3 and the Registry of Open Data on AWS! Sentinel-1 Precise Orbit ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Compressed Sentinel-1 data files again available through ASF

ESA is once again providing Sentinel-1 GRD, SLC, and RAW data in compressed zipped files, and as of June 25, ...
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Thruster anomaly affects Sentinel-1 orbit control

An anomaly in a thruster used for Sentinel-1 orbit positioning control has resulted in the “orbit tube” diameter increasing from ...
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HyP3 On Demand offers Sentinel-1 SLC burst processing

Listen to Dr. Forrest Williams of ASF announce the news at this year’s American Geophysical Union meeting!
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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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