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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

2006 Anniversary Edition – ALASKA SAR FACILITY: In the Beginning

A site for the ASF had to be found and the obvious choice was to locate it in the Elvey Building, the home of the ...
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2006 Anniversary Edition – A Brief History of the RADARSAT-1 Antarctic Mapping Project

The RADARSAT-1 Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP) was conceived in the early 1980’s by Stan Wilson, Bob Thomas, and Bill Townsend. The idea developed as part ...
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Dibble Glacier, Icebergs and Sea Ice.

2006 Anniversary Edition – Sea Ice Motion: Science Driving U.S. SAR Research

The ability to derive quantitative estimates of fine-scale ice motion and deformation from pairs of Seasat SAR images provided the primary scientific basis for implementing ...
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Northwest Passage sea ice contrasts with the coast of Baffin Island, Canada, in this ALOS-PALSAR image taken 8 March 2011. © JAXA, METI 2011

2006 Anniversary Edition – From Airborne to Spaceborne: Reflections on the Alaska Satellite Facility by a User

The first radar images that I ever saw were those in a publication that is, or should be, familiar to anyone associated with ASF - ...
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