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    Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), also called Daichi (a Japanese word meaning "land"), was a 3810 kg Japanese satellite launched in 2006. After...
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    ALOS-2 (category Earth observation satellites of Japan)
    Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2), also called Daichi-2, is a 2,120 kg (4,670 lb) Japanese satellite launched in 2014. Although the predecessor...
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  • ALOS-3 (category Earth observation satellites of Japan)
    Advanced Land Observing Satellite 3 (ALOS-3), also called Daichi 3, was a 3-ton Japanese satellite launched on March 7 2023. It was to succeed the optical...
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  • The Earth Observing System (EOS) is a program of NASA comprising a series of artificial satellite missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit designed...
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  • Sensing Satellite 1 and 2 (ERS 1/ERS 2), the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS 1), RADARSAT 1 and the Japanese Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS)...
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    A number of Earth-observing satellites, such as RADARSAT, have employed synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to obtain terrain and land-cover information about...
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    Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) is a decommissioned NASA Earth observation satellite created to develop and validate a number of instrument and spacecraft bus...
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  • January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024. "Launch Schedule of Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 "DAICHI-4" (ALOS-4) aboard the third H3 Launch Vehicle (H3...
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    capturing stereographic imagery. Landsat is the oldest continuous Earth-observing satellite imaging program. Optical Landsat imagery has been collected at 30...
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    The Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA, formerly named ASTRO-D) was the fourth cosmic X-ray astronomy mission by JAXA, and the second...
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    Earth-imaging satellite. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR satellite, will use advanced radar imaging to map the elevation of Earth's land and ice...
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  • Aerospace Exploration Agency. Retrieved 2020-02-24. "JAXA | Advanced Land Observing Satellite "DAICHI" (ALOS)". JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency...
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    Temilola E.; Freemantle, Terri P.; Pettorelli, Nathalie (2013). "Advanced Land Observing Satellite Phased Array Type L-Band SAR (ALOS PALSAR) to Inform the Conservation...
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    support of U.S. commitments for the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS). The JPSS satellites will carry a suite of sensors designed to collect...
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    for life on Earth. It is the flagship of the Earth Observing System (EOS) and the first satellite of the system which was followed by Aqua (launched in...
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    and cycling of water. It is the second major component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) preceded by Terra (launched 1999) and followed by Aura (launched...
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    Department of the Interior (DOI) was going to proceed with its own Earth-observing satellite program. This savvy political stunt coerced NASA to expedite the...
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    and by the 1980s, research had yielded the Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 and the more advanced Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV), complete with operational...
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    heritage of most of the Earth-observing satellites NASA and NOAA have launched since then. Beginning with the Nimbus 3 satellite in 1969, temperature information...
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    ADEOS II (Advanced Earth Observing Satellite 2) was an Earth observation satellite (EOS) launched by NASDA, with contributions from NASA and CNES, in December...
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    Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) is a NASA Earth-observing satellite mission that will continue and advance observations of global ocean...
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    science instrument sets are the Sun-observing Plasma Magnetometer (PlasMag) and the Earth-observing NIST Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR) and Earth Polychromatic...
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    Suomi NPP (category Weather satellites of the United States)
    measurements that continue prior observations by NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). The satellite is named after Verner E. Suomi, a Finnish-American meteorologist...
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    conducted by the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA) by investigating the hard X-ray band above 10 keV. The satellite was originally...
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    January 2008. "Utilization of Data Acquired by "DAICHI" (Advanced Land Observing Satellite) for Maps" (Press release). JAXA. 16 January 2008. Archived...
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    (COMS) satellite Ocean Color Monitor (OCM) on Oceansat-2 Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (OCTS) on the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS)...
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    research, technology development and launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions such as asteroid exploration and possible...
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    from the synthetic aperture radar image according to the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 "DAICHI-2", the area of crustal movement spreads across...
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    ADEOS I (Advanced Earth Observing Satellite 1) was an Earth observation satellite launched by NASDA in 1996. The mission's Japanese name, Midori means...
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    optical bhangmeters observing the planet 12 external X-ray detectors 18 internal neutron and gamma-ray detectors Vela (satellite) NASA Goddard Space Flight...
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