Addon: ALOS

ALOS Addon

ALOS products in CEOS format, in SIP/GeoTIFF format

ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite), also known as Daichi, is a Japanese (JAXA) remote sensing craft that was launched by a H-2A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center at 01:33 UT on 24 January 2006. The four-tonne satellite carries three instruments for cartographic and natural resource monitoring.
This addon allows to open ALOS products and easily read/extract values from them.
List of supported products:

  • ALOS L0 (CEOS)
  • ALOS AVNIR-2 L1A (CEOS)
  • ALOS AVNIR-2 L1B1 (CEOS)
  • ALOS AVNIR-2 L1B2 (CEOS)
  • ALOS PALSAR L1.0 (CEOS)
  • ALOS PALSAR L1.1 (CEOS)
  • ALOS PALSAR L1.5 (CEOS)
  • ALOS PRISM L1A (CEOS)
  • ALOS PRISM L1B1 (CEOS)
  • ALOS PRISM L1B2 (CEOS)
  • AV2_OBS_11 (SIP/GeoTIFF)
  • PSM_OB1_11 (SIP/GeoTIFF)
  • PSM_OB2_11 (SIP/GeoTIFF)
  • AV2_OBS_1C (SIP/GeoTIFF)
  • PSM_OB1_1C (SIP/GeoTIFF)
  • PSM_OB2_1C (SIP/GeoTIFF)

Software Sources
https://repository.gael.fr/software/sources/trunk/drb/extensions/cortex/topics/alos

Software Releases
https://repository.gael.fr/nexus/content/repositories/releases/fr/gael/drb/drbx-cortex-topic-alos

Reference Data
Coming soon

Reference documents
ALOS AVNIR-2 Level 1 Product Format Description
ALOS PALSAR Level 1 Product Format Description (Vol.1: Level 1.0)
ALOS PALSAR Level 1 Product Format Description (Vol.2: Level 1.1/1.5)
ALOS PRISM Level 1 Product Format Description
ALOS Data Users Handbook
Processors for ALOS Optical Data: Product Format Definition
EO SIP Specialization for ALOS High Level optical products for DSI
EO-SIP Specification for ALOS data