PALSAR-2 launch and early orbit status

Author

Kankaku, Yukihiro ; Sagisaka, Masakazu ; Suzuki, Shinichi

Author_Institution

Japan Aerosp. Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

3410

Lastpage

3412

Abstract

The Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2) is the RADAR satellite which is carrying the state-of-the-art L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) called PALSAR-2 (Phased Array type L-band SAR-2) which succeeds to the PALSAR mounted on ALOS “Daichi”. PALSAR had contributed to various applications such as disaster, deformation, deforestation, agriculture and natural resource monitoring by providing enormous observation data from 2006 to 2011. Therefore, ALOS-2 is expected to continue the ALOS PALSAR mission and its contributions. ALOS-2 was successfully launched by H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center at 24^th May 2014. This paper shows the initial status of PALSAR-2 after launch.

Keywords

agriculture; artificial satellites; deformation; disasters; natural resources; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2006 to 2011; ALOS Daichi; ALOS PALSAR mission; ALOS-2; Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2; H-IIA rocket; L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar; PALSAR-2 launch; Phased Array type L-band SAR-2; RADAR satellite; Tanegashima Space Center; agriculture; deforestation; deformation; disaster; early orbit status; natural resource monitoring; Bandwidth; Monitoring; Orbits; Satellite antennas; Satellites; Synthetic aperture radar; ALOS-2; PALSAR-2; initial status;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947213

Filename

6947213