Third ALOS Research Announcement

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) issues the third Research Announcement (RA) for utilizing Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS, "Daichi") data on September 1, 2009.

This third ALOS Research Announcement (RA) from JAXA is soliciting research proposals for science and utilization research. JAXA issued the first RA for researchers worldwide in 1999, and the second RA for researchers in the Asia and Russia in 2006. Since data utilization has been spread across Asia following the successful launch of ALOS on January 24, 2006 and due to completion of the worldwide data distribution service, JAXA has decided to issue this third RA for researchers in the Asia and Russia, as it did for the second RA.

URL: http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/ra/ra3_guide.htm

For applicants planning to submit research proposals, the guidelines in terms of the applicant's location are as follows:

- The location of the organization that a primary researcher (who is leading the research in a proposal) belongs to has to be physically located within the Asia and Russia upon submission of the proposal.
- The nationality of the primary researcher does not affect the above condition. This means that even if the researcher's nationality is within, for example, Asia but the organization he belongs to is in Europe, such a researcher cannot apply to this RA.
- Cooperating researcher(s) appointed in a proposal are not necessarily required to meet these conditions.

If the primary researcher is selected, the researcher will be a Principal Investigator (PI) in the JAXA RA program.

JAXA and the Node organizations hold joint PI workshops annually that all PIs selected by JAXA or Nodes can attend to discuss research issues.

ALOS Research Announcement milestones
>>More Information for the past RA
>>More Information for the 2nd RA

• 3rd RA document release ---------- September 1, 2009
• Deadline for submission of proposals ------- November 30, 2009
• PI selection ---------- December 2009 ~ middle of March 2010
• Notification of PI selection/Contract (agreement procedure) ----- middle of March ~ end of March 2010
• Contract term ------ April 1, 2010 ~ March 31, 2012 (Data distribution: first year of the contract)
• PI symposium ------- November 2010