Advanced land observation satellite (ALOS). 8. ALOS data reception and processing plan of standard result article.

Preliminary Result of ALOS/PALSAR Fully Polarimetric Data and its Comparison with Pi-SAR Data

The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) was successfully launched on Jan. 24, 2006, from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. The objectives of ALOS are [1]: (1) to provide maps for Japan and other countries including Asia-Pacific region (Cartography), (2) to perform regional observation for "sustainable development", harmonization between Earth environment and development (Regional Observatio...

Frozen Ground Monitoring Using Palsar/alos Data

Microwave remote sensing has shown proof of its effectiveness for frozen ground mapping due to the high difference of permittivity between frozen and unfrozen soil. However, the characterization of seasonal frozen ground still remains a problematic application. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) on the 24 of January 2006. This sat...

Integration of ALOS PALSAR and Landsat Data for Land Cover and Forest Mapping in Northern Tanzania

Land cover and forest mapping supports decision makers in the course of making informed decisions for implementation of sustainable conservation and management plans of the forest resources and environmental monitoring. This research examines the value of integrating of ALOS PALSAR and Landsat data for improved forest and land cover mapping in Northern Tanzania. A separate and joint processing ...

A Semi Automatic Road Extraction Method for Alos Satellite Imagery

A semi automatic road extraction method has been constructed and evaluated. Our purpose is to obtain 1/25,000 level road data from PRISM image. PRISM is panchromatic, three views, and the 2.5m resolution sensor carried on ALOS satellite that will be launched on late 2004. A centre line-detecting algorithm is employed for feature extraction. It picks up pixels where second derivative of brightne...

Ionospheric disturbances observed by the PALSAR onboard ALOS satellite