Objectives and Applications
Cartography, digital terrain models, environmental monitoring, disaster monitoring, civil planning, agriculture and forestry, Earth resources, land surface.
Full Name
Advanced Land Observing Satellite
aka Daichi
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
24 Jan 2006
Mission Links
EOL Date
22 Apr 2011
Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
98.7 minutes
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
98.16 deg
Orbit Altitude
692 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
10:30
Repeat Cycle
46 days
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
AVNIR-2 - Advanced Visible and Near Infra-red Radiometer type 2  |
| PALSAR - Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| PRISM - Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping |
| 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 |
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).
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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 |
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 |
ALOS PRISM L1B
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 |
ALOS PRISM 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 |
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 |
ALOS PRISM African Coverage ESA Archive
Jan-2011 | The ALOS PRISM African Coverage dataset is a collection of the best available (cloud minimal) African
coverage acquired by the PRSIM instrument. Access is provided through the ESA TPM scheme. - Read more |
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 |
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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