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Appendix D – Alaska Satellite Facility: Data Portal, <strong>SAR</strong>
Tools, and <strong>SAR</strong> Training
The Alaska Satellite data portal for data is available at http://www.asf.alaska.edu/
ALOS: Researchers and commercial users in the Americas can access ALOS data (optical
and <strong>SAR</strong>) for any region in the world. For researchers, all data is $125 US per scene.
Commercial prices depend on the product.
JERS-1, ERS-1, ERS-2, AIR<strong>SAR</strong>, RADARSAT-1: U.S. researchers and their
international collabora<strong>to</strong>rs may access archival data and new ERS-1data by submitting a
brief proposal. Data will be provided free of charge.
In all cases, users may order <strong>SAR</strong> data in the following modes: Level 0, Single Look
Complex (SLC), or image products.
The MapReady Tool Kit is accessible at
http://www.asf.alaska.edu/sardatacenter/software<strong>to</strong>ols
This <strong>to</strong>ol ingests <strong>SAR</strong> data in its native format, performs terrain correction, geocodes <strong>to</strong>
various map projections, and exports products as GeoTIFFs. In addition, MapReady now
supports various polarimetric decompositions and operates in a complementary way with
Pol<strong>SAR</strong>pro. Specifically, it supports the conversion of Pol<strong>SAR</strong>pro products <strong>to</strong> terraincorrected
GeoTIFFs, permitting its use in GIS.
Pol<strong>SAR</strong>pro can be downloaded from http://earth.esa.int/polsarpro/default.html
ASF offers <strong>SAR</strong> and polarimetry courses:
26 April, 2010: Half-day workshop on the polarimetric classification of land cover at the
ASPRS Meeting in San Diego, California.
June, 2010: Week-long course on <strong>SAR</strong>: Theory and Applications, hosted at the University
of Alaska Fairbanks.
<strong>SAR</strong> courses can be organized in response <strong>to</strong> request for groups of up <strong>to</strong> 20 students. Cost
is based on materials and transportation of instruc<strong>to</strong>r.
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