Alaska Satellite Facility
The Alaska Satellite Facility is part of the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, located on the Troth Yeddha’ campus.
- ASF downlinks, processes, archives, and distributes remote-sensing data to scientific users worldwide
- 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 will be the NISAR Data Hub!
What's New
Quick Links
- ALOS PALSAR
- Data Recipes (Tutorials)
- Cloud Computing Tutorials
- How to Create Cloud Storage Using AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)
- How to Create a Basic Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) Instance
- How to Move files in and out of an AWS EC2 Instance – Windows
- How to Connect to EC2 with SSH Mac OS X
- How to Connect to your EC2 Instance using PuTTY V1.1
- How to Configure AWS for Running the GMT5SAR InSAR Recipe
- How to Create and Unwrap an Interferogram with GMT5SAR Script in the Cloud — Windows
- How to Create and Unwrap an Interferogram with GMT5SAR Script in the Cloud — OS X
- How to Automatically Generate a Radiometrically Terrain-Corrected (RTC) Sentinel-1 Image using Cloud Computing
- How to Create a Billing Alarm
- Contact Us
New StoryMap Tutorial: Change Detection using OPERA RTC-S1
This new tutorial demonstrates the process of using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for visualizing changes in a landscape caused by
HyP3 On Demand offers Sentinel-1 SLC burst processing
Listen to Dr. Forrest Williams of ASF announce the news at this year’s American Geophysical Union meeting!
2024 ASF NISAR Early Adopters Workshop
The Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF), in collaboration with the NASA JPL NISAR Early Adopters Program, held a two-day workshop on
ARSET – SAR for Detecting and Monitoring Floods, Sea Ice, and Subsidence from Groundwater Extraction
A follow-on to the SAR training held in October 2022, which covered the detection and monitoring of oil spills, landslides,
Scientist Spotlight
Zhong Lu, Ph.D.
Zhong Lu has a story about Syun-Ichi Akasofu, the groundbreaking aurora scientist and former director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. It’s
Zhong Lu, Ph.D.
Zhong Lu has a story about Syun-Ichi Akasofu, the groundbreaking aurora scientist and former director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. It’s a