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ALOS PRISM L1C European Coverage Cloud Free

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  1. Go to the ESA User Services Portal
  2. Register or log in to EO Sign In - Users are required to provide their institutional email address when registering a new account
  3. Submit the form for accessing the data
  4. The request will be evaluated by ESA, which normally takes up to 2 days
  5. Upon successful evaluation, you will receive a confirmation email
  6. A second email will follow with details of where to download the data
  7. Search and download the products from the Dissemination Service (via a map).
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All ALOS-1 PRISM L1C products are freely accessible in accordance with ESA’s Earth observation data policy. An active EO Sign In account is required to download the products.

The data are available for browsing and download from the ALOS dissemination service, which also offers an interactive map for identifying available products and previews of the products.

The data can also be discovered through ESA's EO Catalogue (EO CAT), which allows users to browse and download products among the available datasets from ESA and Third Party Missions and instruments, using various criteria (spatial, temporal).

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Collection Description

This collection is composed of a subset of ALOS-1 PRISM (Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping) OB1 L1C products from the ALOS PRISM L1C collection (DOI: 10.57780/AL1-ff3877f) which have been chosen so as to provide a cloud-free coverage over Europe. 70% of the scenes contained within the collection have a cloud cover percentage of 0%, while the remaining 30% of the scenes have a cloud cover percentage of no more than 20%.

The collection is composed of PSM_OB1_1C EO-SIP products, with the PRISM sensor operating in OB1 mode with three views (Nadir, Forward and Backward) at 35 km width.

Technical Details

DATA SET SPECIFICATIONS

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
Spatial coverage:
72 N, 27 S, -25 W, 46 E
Temporal coverage:
2007-03-26 - 2011-03-31
Date of launch:
2006-01-24
Operators:
JAXA
Mission status:
completed
Orbit height:
691.65 km
Orbit type:
Sun-synchronous
Swath width:
35 km
Resolution:
Very High Resolution - VHR (0 - 5m)
Wavelengths:
VIS (0.40 - 0.75 µm)
Product types:
PSM_OB1_1C

PROCESSING LEVEL

level 1c

APPLICABLE TERMS & CONDITIONS

Utilisation of this data is subject to ESA's Earth Observation Terms and Conditions
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DATA CITATION

European Space Agency, 2023, ALOS PRISM L1C European Coverage Cloud Free, Version 1.0.

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