Embedded in the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) is NASA's data center for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. With more than 20 petabyte of SAR data in its archive, ASF is offering access to the full archive of ESA's Sentinel-1 SAR constellation and will be the main data center for the L-band portion of the upcoming NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission.

 In addition to summarizing ASF's work on making SAR data more accessible, the presentation will touch on the many remote sensing research activities that are led by our team. Topics will include the SAR-based monitoring of global ice masses, the analysis of permafrost change, and the assessment of natural hazards related to volcanoes, earthquakes, and flooding. The presentation will also include a summary of our training and capacity building activities, aimed at improving the capacity of the science and applications communities to leverage SAR data. 

Speaker info:

Dr. Franz J Meyer

Chief Scientist, Alaska Satellite Facility

Professor of Remote Sensing, University of Alaska Fairbanks