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Previous Events
First Friday Art Show: Snow & Ice
Featured Ice-Inspired Photography by:
- Austin Post
- Adam and Julie Hughes
- faculty, staff, and students of the UAF Geophysical Institute
- and other artists
Go to the First Friday Art Show: Snow & Ice event page
SMAP/ICESat-2 Joint Mission Applications Tutorial
The SMAP/ICESat-2 tutorial is a unique opportunity to collect and distribute informacion about different user needs while discussing how SMAP (launch October 2014) soil moisture and surface freeze/thaw state data products can be used in parallel with ICESat-2 (launch 2016) altimetry data. Please join us and contribute to the discussion.
Go to the SMAP/ICESat-2 Joint Mission Applications Tutorial event page
CEOS SAR Calibration and Validation Workshop
ASF hosted the annual CEOS Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) Calibration and Validation Workshop November 7-9, 2011 in Fairbanks, Alaska at the Fairbanks Princess Riverside Lodge. The workshop was an annual event to discuss calibration methods, sites and issues for current and future missions. Members from the space agencies with operational SAR missions presented updates on the status and quality of their missions. The group discussed new standards for future missions to keep pace with technology and the needs of the scientific community.
Go to the CEOS SAR Calibration and Validation Workshop webpage
ASF Open House
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of its first synthetic aperture radar data downlink, the Alaska Satellite Facility hosted an open house. The open house was held in the Elvey/Akasofu Building complex on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus on Saturday, August 20, 2011. The community was encouraged to come learn more about the facility and its worldwide services.
3rd ALOS Joint PI Symposium
The 3rd Annual ALOS Joint PI Symposium was hosted by the Americas ALOS Data Node and held November 9-13, 2009 in Kona, Hawai’i.
The Symposium focussed on PALSAR, PRISM, AVNIR 2, InSAR, Land Cover/Use, Geohazards, Forestry, Ocean Processes, Polarimetry, Glaciology, Kyoto/Carbon, Sea Ice, Hydrology, Floods/Wetlands, Software and Tools, Agriculture/Vegetation, and IPY.
Go to the 3rd ALOS Joint PI Symposium page