Satellite

ALOS-4 Overview

About Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4)

The Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4) is a successor of the SAR mission of ALOS and ALOS-2. ALOS-4 will be equipped with the phased array type L-band synthetic aperture radar (PALSAR-3).

The observation swath of ALOS-4 will be drastically increased from 50 km (ALOS-2) to 200 km while keeping the high resolution.


Specifications