The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has issued the sixth Research Announcement (RA-6) on July 2015 for science and application research using the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2).
RA-6 solicits the research proposals for science and application research using ALOS-2, which carries the L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar, PALSAR-2.
Participation as an ALOS Principal Investigator (PI) is open to global researchers from all categories of organizations: educational institutions, research institutes, private enterprises and government institutions and any other organizations.
Applicants may submit the research proposal by September 18, 2015 September 25, 2015.
Further details of the Research Announcement are available on
http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/ra/ra6_guide.htm
- Deadline for registration and submission of proposal --- September 18, 2015 September 25, 2015
- Notification of PI selection ---------------- End of October, 2015 February 2016 (planned)
- Contract (agreement procedure) ------- End of October - December, 2015 February - March, 2016
- Research Phase 1 ---------------- Conclusion of the contract - March 2019
- The 2nd PI Workshop ----------- November 18-20, 2015 at Tokyo, Japan
- Next PI Workshop ---------------- A/N
- Deadline for submitting Interim Report by PI ---- June 30, 2018 (planned)
- Research Phase 2* ----------------- April 2019 - March 2021
- The Final Report Deadline ---------- March 2021 (planned)
- * Research duration is by March 2019 as phase 1, and will be two years extension based on the interim evaluation result.
