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)