HR: 0800h
AN: SF21A-0021    [Abstracts]
TI: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data from the Alaska Satellite Facility
AU: * Wolf, V G
EM: vwolf@asf.alaska.edu
AF: Alaska Satellite Facility, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775 United States
AU: Harbin, M
EM: mharbin@asf.alaska.edu
AF: Alaska Satellite Facility, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775 United States
AB: The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) downlinks, archives, processes and distributes Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to NASA approved researchers and U.S. government agencies. When a researcher becomes an approved NASA investigator through a simple proposal process, any data in the ASF catalog can be ordered as a level 0 or level 1 product at no cost. The EOS Data Gateway (EDG) provides everyone with the ability to examine the ASF catalog for data. The EDG enables searches by satellite, time, and geographic region. The extensive archive contains SAR data acquired by the ERS-1, ERS-2, JERS, and Radarsat-1 SAR sensors. Arctic researchers can find SAR data for Alaska, Arctic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Bering, Beaufort and Chukchi Seas from September 1991 to the present. Researchers looking for SAR data of Antarctica and surrounding seas, the ASF archive contains data from December 1994 to the present. Data from elsewhere in the world may be found in the archive as well. Mosaics of the Amazon Basin and Boreal North America are available on CD and DVD; the source data for the mosaics is available from the archive. The ASF User Services Office is available to assist with the proposal process, data searches, and to answer any questions about using SAR data.
DE: 9310 Antarctica
DE: 9315 Arctic region
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting