ASF Operational Capabilities

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ASF Operational Capabilities
Don Atwood Michelle Harbin
Alaska Satellite Facility
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Alaska Satellite Facility
Operated by the Geophysical Institute at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks since 1991.

• Member of NASA DAAC Alliance
• U.S. Order Desk for non-commercial, U.S.
  RADARSAT-1 customers
• NASA Ground Network Station
• Americas ALOS Data Node

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ASF DAAC

• Level-1 (L1) Processors
• Precision Processor
• ScanSAR Processor
• Vexcel Focus
• ASF Range Doppler Processor

• User Services and Technical support
• Acquisition planning
• Direct user support
• Quarterly newsletter
• Quality control
• Calibration and validation
• Proposal support
• Science community outreach

• Archive
• Active missions
• Past missions
• Distribution
• Production planning
• Processing on demand
• Electronic transfer
• Media

• Level-0 (L0) Processors
• Operational system
• Offline system
• Level-2 Processors
• RGPS ice motion products
• DEM products

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Level-1 and Level-0 Production1997-present
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ASF Satellite Tracking Station

• RADARSAT-1
• ERS-2
• FAST
• SciSAT
• QuikSCAT
• ALOS

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ALOS Data
PALSAR PRISM AVNIR-2
10-100m Resolution 2.5m Resolution 10m
Resolution
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JAXAs Data Flow Concept

• Data Nodes
• Archive the ALOS L0 data for at least 5 years
• Distribute the L0, L1 and higher data to the
  customers
• Generate and archive the L1 data
• Direct reception for near-real-time (NRT) access

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ASFs partnership with NASA and CSA ASAP Legacy
Data Sets Project
Data available partnering with CSA and NASA on
this project
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ASAP Legacy Data Sets ProjectASF Coverage areas

• Greenland Sept. 2000 Jan. 2001
• Antarctica Sept. Oct. 1997
• Kamchatka Dec. 1999 Jan. 2000
• Sea Ice Min Max 2003 - 2006
• Toolik Lake - Oct. 2004 Dec. 2006
• Possible on-line support for CSAs ASAP legacy
  datasets as well?

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Questions?
Don Atwood datwood_at_asf.alaska.edu 907-474-7380
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JAXA IPY Activity

• ADN-13_at_Chiang Mai
• Kazuo Ohta, Masanobu Shimada, JAXA/EORC

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IPY activities
Acquisition of Antarctica regions FBS in three
cycles (8,14, and 16) WB1 in one cycle
(13) Browse images created for each of four
cycles Further analysis using speckle tracking
method may show the highly moving areas.
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IPY 2007 2008 PALSAR antarctica mapping