Imaging Radars
PALSAR
The Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) is an active microwave sensor using L-band frequency for cloud-free and day-and-night land observation, and provides higher performance than the JERS-1's SAR. The fine resolution mode is a conventional one. The PALSAR will have other attractive observation mode, the ScanSAR mode, which will allow us to acquire a 250 to 350 km width (depends on number of scans) of SAR images at the expense of spatial resolution. This is three to five times wider swath than conventional SAR images. The development of the PALSAR is a joint project between NASDA and Japan Resources Observation System Organization (JAROS). [Summary Provided by JAXA.] Group: Instrument_Details Entry_ID: PALSAR Group: Instrument_Identification Instrument_Category: Earth Remote Sensing Instruments Instrument_Class: Active Remote Sensing Instrument_Type: Imaging Radars Short_Name: PALSAR Long_Name: Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar End_Group Group: Associated_Platforms Short_Name: ALOS End_Group Group: Spectral_Frequency_Information Wavelength_Keyword: Microwave End_Group Online_Resource: http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/hatoyama/satellite/sendata/palsar_e.html Sample_Image: http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/hatoyama/satellite/sendata/image/palsar.gif Group: Instrument_Logistics Instrument_Owner: JAPAN/JAXA End_Group End_Group