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What's NEW!

May 11, 2023
” Monitoring fluctuating forest carbon from space”
- ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) releases the latest version of global forest biomass dataset using ALOS and ALOS-2- (Link to JAXA’s “Satellite Navigator”)
Apr. 11, 2023
All PALSAR-2 ScanSAR L1.1/L2.2 products for the following period are now available from G-Portal.
Obs. period: August 2014 - February 2023
Apr. 5, 2023
ALOS-2 / "PALSAR-2 Basic Observation Scenario Map/User Guideline" was updated.(CYCLE229 ~ CYCLE241)
PALSAR-2 Basic Observation Mode per cycle (World/Japan) was updated.
ALOS-2 Basic Observation Scenario (3rd Edition,Ver.J) was uploaded.
Mar. 16, 2023
The 2nd Earth Observation Research Announcement(ALOS series PI) List (EO-RA2) was updated.
Mar. 7, 2023
Launch Failure of the First H3 Launch Vehicle and Setting up a Special Task Force
Mar. 6, 2023
Calibration results of ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 standard products were updated.
[Announcement of deviation from orbit control window by the debris avoidance maneuver (Final)]
Mar. 1, 2023
ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 ScanSAR data for the Turkey earthquake released for free.
Feb. 10, 2023
Calibration results of ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 standard products were updated.
[Announcement of deviation from orbit control window by the debris avoidance maneuver (Final)]
Feb. 9, 2023
Calibration results of ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 standard products were updated.
[Announcement of deviation from orbit control window by the debris avoidance maneuver]

Project

  • ALOS-4, DAICHI-4

    An L-band SAR mission achieving wide swath observation with high resolution, as successor of "DAICHI-2" (ALOS-2). To be launched in JFY2023.

  • ALOS-3, DAICHI-3

    An optical mission achieving high resolution observation with wide swath, as successor of optical mission of "DAICHI" (ALOS). The launch failed on Mar. 7, 2023.

  • ALOS-2, DAICHI-2

    Follow-on mission of L-band SAR from "DAICHI" (ALOS), which contributes for a variety of purposes, including disaster monitoring, forest distribution, and analysis of crustal movement.

  • ALOS, DAICHI

    This project aimed to contribute various earth observation field as mapping, disaster monitoring, and resource surveying in global.

  • JERS-1, FUYO-1

    The first satellite in Japan equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and stereoscopic optical instrument and observed global land area for various purposes.

Dataset