Topics
New Arrival
- Jan. 31, 2023
- "High Resolution Land Use Land Cover Map (Okinawa Island) ver.23.01" was released.
- Sep. 21, 2022
- Replaced some tiles of the PALSAR-2 global mosaic datasets were updated to Ver.2.1.2.
- Aug. 5, 2022
- Global Mangrove Watch (version 3.0) raster dataset was released.
- Jul. 27, 2022
- PALSAR-2 Level 2.2 product was released.
- Jul. 26, 2022
- PALSAR-2 global mosaic datasets from 2015 to 2021 were updated to Ver.2.1.1.
- Jul. 26, 2022
- A Report on the Increase of PALSAR-2 Geometric Errors due to Ionospheric Effects
- Jun. 21, 2022
- PALSAR-2 global mosaic datasets from 2015 to 2021 were updated to Ver.2.1.0
- Apr. 12, 2022
- • PALSAR-2 global mosaic datasets in 2015 and 2016 were updated.
• PALSAR-2 global mosaic dataset in 2021 was released.
• Forest/non-forest maps in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 were released. - Apr. 1, 2022
- Three tiles of "High Resolution Land Use Land Cover Map (Japan) ver.21.11" have been updated.
- Mar. 24, 2022
- PALSAR-2 global mosaic dataset in 2017 and 2018 were updated.
What's NEW!
- 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] - Feb. 3, 2023
- • ALOS-2 accumulated observation results (from observation start date to present: 2014/8/4~2022/12/11) were uploaded.
• ALOS-2 annual observation results (2022: 2021/12/13~2022/12/11) were uploaded.
• ALOS-2 Supersites observation results (from observation start date to present: 2014/8/4~2022/12/11) were uploaded. - Jan. 27, 2023
- ALOS-3 CVST Members List was updated. ALOS-4 CVST Members List was updated.
Project
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An L-band SAR mission achieving wide swath observation with high resolution, as successor of "DAICHI-2" (ALOS-2). To be launched in JFY2022.
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An optical mission achieving high resolution observation with wide swath, as successor of optical mission of "DAICHI" (ALOS). To be launched in JFY2021.
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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.
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This project aimed to contribute various earth observation field as mapping, disaster monitoring, and resource surveying in global.
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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
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Global 25m-resolution mosaics using ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, ALOS PALSAR, and JERS-1 SAR images and global forest/non-forest maps.
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The reference dataset for the "ALOS Kyoto and Carbon Initiative Project".
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The precise global digital 3D map using ALOS PRISM. Version 3.2 of the global 30m-mesh digital surface model (DSM) is freely available.
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High-resolution land cover classification map dataset for Japan and Vietnam. Three temporal datasets are available for the Japan region.
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The Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) was established in 2011 under JAXA's Kyoto & Carbon Initiative.
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JJ-FAST is a web-based system using JAXA’s ALOS-2 to monitor tropical forests in 77 countries every 1.5 months and release deforestation data, even in the rainy season.
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Ortho-rectified image products of ALOS/AVNIR-2 for the Japan region.
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Monitoring the north and south polar regions using PALSAR for contributing "International Polar Year".
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Glacial lake inventory dataset of Bhutan using AVNIR-2 and PRISM.
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ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 scene-by-scene product with ortho-rectification and radiometric terrain correction.