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Using data from the ALOS/PALSAR, Dr. Kellndorfer's group has produced the first-of-its-kind, large-scale, wall-to-wall image mosaic for a portion of the Amazon basin (see A above).
The Japanese ALOS satellite, launched by JAXA on 24 th January 2006, carries three instruments, one of them being the fully polarimetric L-band radar sensor PALSAR. Under a contract with ESA/ESRIN, ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has generated the world's first 10-meter resolution images and maps of the global forest and non-forest area distribution (in 2007 and 2009) using the ...
The H3 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 11:06 p.m. Eastern, June 30 (0306 UTC, July 1) carrying the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4), also known as DAICHI-4.
The Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS-1) SAR (1992–1998), ALOS PALSAR (2006–2011) and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 (since 2014) are the exceptions, as they are the first SAR missions with semi ...
ALOS captured the image of Naples, ... (PALSAR) instrument – a microwave radar instrument that can acquire observations during both day and night and through any weather conditions. ...
ALOS-2 is a 2,120 kilogram (4,670 lb) spacecraft, ... The primary instrument of Daichi-2 is the Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar 2, or PALSAR-2.
The Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4) is a satellite that observes Earth’s surface using its onboard phased array type L-band synthetic aperture radar (PALSAR-3).
ALOS captured the image of Naples, ... (PALSAR) instrument – a microwave radar instrument that can acquire observations during both day and night and through any weather conditions. ...