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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

Sentinel-1 InSAR Storymap Earthquake Qinghai, China

Sentinel-1 InSAR StoryMap

In honor of National GIS Day 2021, ASF published a StoryMap exploring the ASF Sentinel-1 On Demand InSAR products. The ...
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Python search library now available

We are pleased to announce asf_search, a new python module available through PyPI and Conda. Greatly simplifying search and download ...
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ASF Celebrates 30 Years of Operations

For 30 years, ASF has provided consistent, high-quality access to Earth observation data acquired from space and from air. From ...
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Dr. Bowman

Dr. Steve Bowman is profiled on the NASA Earthdata website

Dr. Bowman is the Geologic Hazards Program Manager with the Utah Geological Survey and member of the ASF DAAC User ...
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Mapping Antarctica

While limited exploration of Antarctica occurred sporadically during the first half of the twentieth century, dedicated scientific studies began with the 1957 International Geophysical Year. ...
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ERS Free and Open

ERS-1 and ERS-2 are now free and open by agreement between NASA and ESA. The ERS-1 and -2 archive contains data collected primarily within the ...
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Tributes for ASF’s 25th Anniversary

Recognition for ASF in its 25th anniversary year has come from all directions, from NASA’s Near Earth Network (NEN) to the Alaska state legislature. At ...
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A New Antenna for ASF Ground Station

After many weeks of meticulous planning, local and visiting engineers and contractors first worked in subzero temperatures (down to minus 30°F) to dislodge the original, ...
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ASF 25th-Anniversary Celebration

The celebration of ASF’s quarter-century milestone took place at an open house in early June 2016. The day featured an ...
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2006 Anniversary Edition – Message from the ASF Director

10-meter antenna construction underway – Photographed by Jim Coccia Nettie La Belle-Hamer – Director, ASF What is now the Alaska ...
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2006 Anniversary Edition – Global Forest Mapping with JERS-1 SAR

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA; formerly known as NASDA) successfully launched the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (JERS-1, nicknamed FUYO) in late 1992 into a ...
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2006 Anniversary Edition – Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar: Building Tomorrow’s Tools Today

A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system transmits electromagnetic (EM) waves at a wavelength that can range from a few millimeters to tens of centimeters. The ...
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