ALOS Satellite Mission Summary

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - ALOS -

Full Name

Advanced Land Observing Satellite
aka Daichi

Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

JAXA

Launch Date

24 Jan 2006

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

22 Apr 2011

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

28931 (TLE)

International Designator

2006-002A

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

Objectives and Applications

Cartography, digital terrain models, environmental monitoring, disaster monitoring, civil planning, agriculture and forestry, Earth resources, land surface.

Mission Measurements

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

Mission Instruments

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

Featured Datasets
More Datasets

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

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

OpenSearch Datasets

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 $This dataset provides Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) estimates of lake-source methane ebullition flux in mg CH4/m2/d for thousands of lakes in five regions across Alaska. The study regions include the Atqasuk, Barrow Peninsula, Fairbanks, northern Seward Peninsula, and Toolik. L-band SAR backscatter values for early winter lake ice scenes were collected from 2007 to 2010 over 5,143 lakes using the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) instrument on the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS-1) satellite. The backscatter data were combined with field measurements of methane ebullition from 48 study lakes across the five regions to obtain a volumetric flux estimate for each lake. Mean methane gas-fractions from each region were applied to the SAR-based volumetric fluxes to obtain an estimate of methane ebullition mass flux per lake. The data files contain lake perimeters and the lake-specific attributes of lake area, SAR backscatter values and standard errors, volumetric flux with standard errors, mean percent of methane from gas samples, and methane ebullition mass flux.$
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

Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 13 results: browser , table )
ALOS AVNIR-2 L1C

ALOS PRISM L1C

Alos PRISM L1B

TropForest- ALOS, GEOSAT-1 & KOMPSAT-2 optical coverages over tropical forests

ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Ice Velocity data for t...

ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Ice Velocity time serie...

ALOS Images(ROSCOSMOS)

ALOS PALSAR products

Alos African Coverage ESA archive

ALOS PRISM L1C European Coverage Cloud Free

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