ALOS PALSAR | Satellite | 2006 - 2011 | Vertex Data Search | ASF Search API | Broad applications: glaciers, landslides, volcanoes, earthquakes, oil seeps, wetlands, sea ice, and more. | The Americas, Antarctica, select wordwide sites |
SAR Sensor: L-band Repeat Cycle: 46 days Products: L1.0 raw, L1.1 single look complex (SLC), L1.5 Georeferenced amplitude image, Hi-res RTC image, Low-res RTC image |
Sentinel-1 | Satellite | 2014 - Present | Vertex Data Search | ASF Search API | Broad applications: volcanoes, earthquakes, glaciers, land subsidence, sea ice, flooding, oceans, and more | Global |
SAR Sensor: C-band Repeat Cycle: 12 days Products: L0 raw, L1 single look complex (SLC), L1 ground-range detected mid-res single-pol (GRD-MS), L1 ground-range detected high-res single-pol (GRD-HS), L1 ground-range detected mid-res dual-pol (GRD-MD), L1 ground-range detected high-res dual-pol (GRD-HD), L2 ocean (OCN) |
UAVSAR | Aircraft | 2008 - Present | Vertex Data Search | ASF Search API | Select locations: oil spills, earthquakes, volcanoes, oceans, land cover, and more | Targeted worldwide sites |
SAR Sensor: L-band Repeat Cycle: Non-applicable Products: Single look complex (SLC), multi-look complex cross products, compress stokes matrix, ground-projected calibrated cross products, DEM |
ERS-1 | Satellite | 1991 - 1997 | Vertex Data Search | ASF Search API | Polar regions and processes (sea ice, Arctic, Antarctic) | Primarily polar, within station masks of the ASF and McMurdo ground stations |
SAR Sensor: C-band Repeat Cycle: 35 days Products: L0 raw, L1 amplitude image |
ERS-2 | Satellite | 1995 - 2011 | Vertex Data Search | ASF Search API | Polar regions and processes (sea ice, Arctic, Antarctic) | Primarily polar, within station masks of the ASF and McMurdo ground stations |
SAR Sensor: C-band Repeat Cycle: 35 days Products: L0 raw, L1 amplitude image |
AIRSAR | Aircraft | 1990 - 2004 | Vertex Data Search | ASF Search API | Select locations: oceans, coasts, forest ecology, geology, hydrology, earthquakes, archeaology, and more | Selected sites worldwide |
SAR Sensor: L-band, P-band, C-band Repeat Cycle: Non-applicable Products: Along-track interferometry, 3-frequency polarimetry, L-Band compressed stokes matrix, P-Band compressed stokes matrix, C-Band DEM and compressed stokes matrix |
Seasat | Satellite | 1978 | Vertex Data Search | ASF Search API | Portions of northern oceans and land (the first NASA SAR mission; data processed by ASF in 2013) | Regions of Northern Hemisphere, including oceans and N. America |
SAR Sensor: L-band Repeat Cycle: 3 days at launch; 17 days after mid-August Products: L1 image, GeoTIFF |
SMAP | Satellite | 2015 (3 months) | Vertex Data Search | ASF Search API | Soil moisture and freeze/thaw state (detailed data from 3 months in 2015). Benchmark data for flood, landslide, and drought monitoring; agricultural planning; and climate forecasting | Global |
SAR Sensor: L-band Repeat Cycle: 3 days Products: L1A_Radar, L1B_S0_LoRes, L1C_S0_HiRes, L1A receive only |