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ALOS African Coverage ESA archive

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Description

ALOS Africa is a dataset of the best available (cloud minimal, below 10%) African coverage acquired by AVNIR-2 in OBS mode and PRISM in OB1 mode (all Backward, Nadir and Forward views, in separated products), two different collections one for each instrument. The processing level for both AVNIR-2 and PRISM products is L1B.

This dataset is a subset of the main ALOS AVNIR-2 and ALOS PRISM ESA collections.

Details

DATA SET SPECIFICATIONS

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
Spatial coverage:
37 N, -37 S, -26 W, 53 E
Temporal coverage:
2006-07-09 - 2009-05-12
Date of launch:
2006-01-24
Operators:
JAXA
Mission status:
completed
Orbit height:
691.65 km
Orbit type:
Sun-synchronous
Swath width:
35 km PRISM, 70 km AVNIR-2
Resolution:
High Resolution - HR (5 - 20 m), Medium Resolution - MR (20 - 500 m)
Wavelengths:
VIS (0.40 - 0.75 µm), NIR (0.75 - 1.30 µm)
Product types:
AV2_OBS_11, PSM_OB1_11

PROCESSING LEVEL

level 1b

APPLICABLE TERMS & CONDITIONS

Utilisation of this data is subject to ESA's Earth Observation Terms and Conditions
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DATA CITATION

European Space Agency, 2021, Alos African Coverage ESA archive, Version 1.0.

RESOURCES

Product Specifications

JAXA Level 1.1 and 1.5 data format

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Information on ALOS Optical products for ADEN users

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