NDLI: ALOS PALSAR: A Pathfinder Mission for Global-Scale Monitoring of the Environment

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Author	Rosenqvist, A. Shimada, M. Ito, N. Watanabe, M.
Copyright Year	1980
Abstract	The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) is Japan's new-generation Earth Observation satellite, launched in January 2006 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. ALOS carries two optical instruments (Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping and Advanced Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer type 2) and, to maintain Japan's commitment to spaceborne L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), the Phased Array L-band SAR (PALSAR). The successor to the SAR onboard the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (1992-1998), the PALSAR instrument provides enhanced sensor characteristics, including full polarimetry, variable off-nadir viewing, and ScanSAR operations, as well as significantly improved radiometric and geometric performance. As important as the technical improvements and the reason PALSAR here is referred to as a pathfinder mission for global environmental monitoring is the systematic data-acquisition strategy which has been implemented for ALOS. With a priority second only to emergency observations, the PALSAR observation strategy has been designed to provide consistent, wall-to-wall observations at fine resolution of all land areas on the Earth on a repetitive basis, in a manner which has earlier been conceived only for coarse- and medium-resolution instruments.
Sponsorship	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society IEEE URSI
Starting Page	3307
Ending Page	3316
Page Count	10
File Size	1738772
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ISSN	01962892
Volume Number	45
Issue Number	11
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-11-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Instruments Synthetic aperture radar Remote monitoring Satellite broadcasting Radiometry L-band Phased arrays Optical arrays Earth Artificial satellites synthetic aperture radar Global monitoring mission planning remote sensing sensor calibration and validation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Earth and Planetary Sciences Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Implementation of systematic data observation strategies for ALOS PALSAR, PRISM and AVNIR-2

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