CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- ALOS
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Full Name
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Advanced Land Observing Satellite
aka Daichi
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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JAXA
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Launch Date
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24 Jan 2006
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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22 Apr 2011
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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28931 (TLE)
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International Designator
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2006-002A
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Orbit Type
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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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98.7 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Descending
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Orbit Inclination
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98.16 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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692 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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10:30
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Repeat Cycle
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46 days
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Objectives and Applications
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Cartography, digital terrain models, environmental monitoring, disaster monitoring, civil planning, agriculture and forestry, Earth resources, land surface.
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Mission Measurements
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| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Land | Albedo and reflectance | AVNIR-2, PALSAR, PRISM |
| Landscape topography | AVNIR-2, PALSAR, PRISM |
| Soil moisture | PALSAR |
| Vegetation | AVNIR-2, PALSAR |
| Multi-purpose imagery (land) | AVNIR-2, PALSAR, PRISM |
| Ocean | Ocean surface winds | PALSAR |
| Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) | PALSAR |
| Snow & Ice | Ice sheet topography | PALSAR |
| Snow cover, edge and depth | AVNIR-2, PALSAR |
| Sea ice cover, edge and thickness | AVNIR-2, PALSAR |
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Mission Instruments
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Featured Datasets
More Datasets
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ALOS Mosaics
Jul-2018
| Global 25m resolutions PALSAR-2/PALSAR mosaic and forest/non-forest map are free and open dataset generated by applying JAXA's powerful processing and sophisticated analysis method/techniques to a lot of images obtained with Japanese L-band Synthetic Aperture Radars (PALSAR and PALSAR-2) on Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) and Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2).
Read more 
Groups: LSI-VC F&B SG , LSI-VC
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ALOS AVNIR-2 L1C
Dec-2011
| ALOS was developed by JAXA and carried two optical instruments and an L-band
active microwave sensor payload. Applications include cartography, regional
observation, disaster observation and resources surveying. ESA offers access to ALOS data through the TPM scheme, over the European/African ground segment. Read more
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ALOS PALSAR
Dec-2011
| ALOS was developed by JAXA and carried two optical instruments and an L-band
active microwave sensor payload. Applications include cartography, regional
observation, disaster observation and resources surveying. ESA offers access to ALOS data through the TPM scheme, over the European/African ground segment. Read more
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ALOS PRISM
Dec-2011
| ALOS was developed by JAXA and carried two optical instruments and an L-band
active microwave sensor payload. Applications include cartography, regional
observation, disaster observation and resources surveying. ESA offers access to ALOS data through the TPM scheme, over the European/African ground segment. Read more
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ALOS AVNIR-2 African Coverage ESA Archive
Jan-2011
| The ALOS AVNIR-2 African Coverage dataset is a collection of the best available (cloud minimal) African
coverage acquired by the AVNIR-2 instrument, composed by Level 1B1 products
(radiometrically corrected with absolute calibration coefficient included). Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. Read more
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ALOS PALSAR IPY Antarctica
Jan-2011
| Initiated under the International Polar Year (IPY), ESA provides full resolution
ScanSAR products from ALOS PALSAR over Antarctica. ALOS PALSAR ScanSAR
(WB1) processed products in 100 m spatial resolution (L1.5) are available for
Research and Application development. Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. Read more
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TropForest 2010
Jan-2010
| Covers tropical forest areas in South East Asia and South America. The data
were acquired by the ALOS, GEOSAT-1 and KOMPSAT-2 satellites with the goal of
creating a harmonised geo-database of ready-to-use satellite imagery to support
2010 global forest assessments performed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of
the European Commission and the FAO. Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. Read more
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OpenSearch Datasets
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Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 58 )
ABoVE: Ecosystem Map, Great Slave Lake Area, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1997-2011
ABoVE: SAR-based Methane Ebullition Flux from Lakes, Five Regions, Alaska, 2007-2010
ABoVE: Wetland Type, Slave River and Peace-Athabasca Deltas, Canada, 2007 and 2017
Alos African Coverage ESA archive
ALOS AVNIR-2 L1C
ALOS PALSAR International Polar Year Antarctica
ALOS PALSAR products
Alos PRISM L1B
ALOS PRISM L1C
ALOS_AVNIR_OBS_ORI
Want to explore more? Try FedEO by ESA or CMR OpenSearch by NASA
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