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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

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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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ASF Science Friday series continues August 26

Monthly Lecture ASF is playing an increasing role in support of NASA’s Earth Science mission. A monthly lecture series features ...
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NASA schedules second OPERA workshop

NASA and JPL will host a second OPERA project workshop on September 2, 2022. Participation is available in-person or virtually. ...
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Image from Sentinel-1 reveal changes in the Earth's surface over one year

Sentinel-1 images reveal changes in the Earth’s surface over one year

A new set of satellite radar-derived images provides a novel view of the face of Earth in unprecedented detail, advancing ...
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