
Alaska Satellite Facility
The Alaska Satellite Facility is part of the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, located on the Troth Yehhda’ campus
- ASF downlinks, processes, archives, and distributes remote-sensing data to scientific users around the world
- ASF promotes, facilitates, and participates in the advancement of remote sensing to support national and international Earth science research, field operations, and commercial applications
- ASF is committed to providing high-quality data and services quickly and reliably
- Coming Soon! NISAR — A dedicated NASA and ISRO SAR satellite mission, optimized for studying hazards and global environmental change. ASF has been selected to be the NISAR Data Hub!
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- Cloud Computing Tutorials
- Create Cloud Storage Using AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Create a Basic Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) Instance
- Move files in and out of an AWS EC2 Instance – Windows
- Connect to EC2 with SSH Mac OS X
- Connect to your EC2 Instance using PuTTY V1.1
- Configure AWS for Running the GMT5SAR InSAR Recipe
- Create and Unwrap an Interferogram with GMT5SAR Script - Windows
- Create and Unwrap an Interferogram with GMT5SAR Script - OS X
- Automatically Generate a Radiometrically Terrain-Corrected Sentinel-1 Image
- Create a Billing Alarm
- SAR Data Recipes
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Sentinel-1B satellite mission ends
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ASF Science Friday series continues August 26
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Webinar: Jump-Start SAR Data Analysis in the Cloud with ASF’s OpenSARLab
This webinar introduces OpenSARLab as a free, limited-access service for SAR processing using a cloud-hosted Jupyter Hub located alongside the

NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET)
ARSET offers self-paced training modules and live webinars at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels. Most webinar materials are also available
Scientist Spotlight
Forrest Williams, PhD.
Forrest Williams is a newly minted Ph.D., having successfully defended his thesis near the end of 2022 at New Zealand’s Massey University, where his focus was geology. The topic? Large landslides in New Zealand and how satellite data can track them so that scientists can understand the causes. Landslides are a serious problem in many parts of New Zealand. The