JAXA's EORC classifies ALOS data application research areas into the following 12 categories, and seeks to promote researches that have potentialities of ALOS data utilization.
- 1) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Mapping
- 2) Land Use Monitoring and Land Cover Classification
- 3) Disaster Monitoring
- 4) Geological Surveying and Mineral Resource Exploration
- 5) Terrestrial Ecosystem and Forestry Management
- 6) Oceanography and Coastal Zone Related Research
- 7) Snow and Ice Related Research
- 8) Agriculture Management
- 9) Hydrology and Water Resource Management
- 10) Application Research using Geographical Information
- 11) PRISM / AVNIR-2
- 12) PALSAR
- 13) Thailand (JAXA-GISTDA collaboration)