Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS): mission objectives and payloads

Ryosuke Shibasaki; Yuji Osawa; Kenichi Toda; Hiroyuki Wakabayashi; Takashi Hamazaki; Hideo Takamatsu

doi:10.1117/12.265434

27 January 1997 Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS): mission objectives and payloads

Ryosuke Shibasaki, Yuji Osawa, Kenichi Toda, Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Takashi Hamazaki, Hideo Takamatsu

Proceedings Volume 2957, Advanced and Next-Generation Satellites II; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.265434
Event: Satellite Remote Sensing III, 1996, Taormina, Italy

Abstract

This paper introduces outline of Japanese high-resolution earth observation satellite called ALOS, which NASDA plan to launch in 2002. Main mission objectives comprise DEM generation for GIS, environmental and hazard monitoring. NASDA have completed the investigation of users' requirements and preliminary design of hardware for the ALOS. As a result, the ALOS will equip both optical and microwave sensors to fulfill the requirements. DEM will be generated by the optical sensor with stereoscopic observation capability by 'three-line-sensor' with 2.5 m resolution. Multi-spectral information will be acquired by AVNIR-II, a multi-spectral optical sensors with 5m resolution and 4 bands. The microwave sensor, a L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which is a follow-on of the JERS-1/SAR, has capabilities of look-angle change and the ScanSAR mode.

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Ryosuke Shibasaki, Yuji Osawa, Kenichi Toda, Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, Takashi Hamazaki, and Hideo Takamatsu "Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS): mission objectives and payloads", Proc. SPIE 2957, Advanced and Next-Generation Satellites II, (27 January 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.265434

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