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Vertex is Now Available in Spanish

The Vertex search application developed by NASA’s Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center (ASF DAAC) is now available in Spanish.
News
June 22, 2023
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ASF Receives New NASA Contract Award

The Alaska Satellite Facility was recently awarded NASA’s Earth Radar Data Operations Management contract for another 5 years.
News
June 22, 2023
This SAR displacement image shows the degree of land subsidence following an earthquake. There is a color spectrum ranging from blue to green to yellow to orange to red, with red indicating the most subsidence (measured in centimeters) and blue indicating the least. The largest area of color on this island is in the yellow to green range.

Data Tool in Focus: OpenScienceLab

OpenScienceLab promotes open science by reducing barriers to working with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data in the cloud.
Feature Article
May 31, 2023
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JPL Uses Data from ASF for the ARIA Project

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/CalTech Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) Project utilizes Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data and Global Positioning System (GPS) for detecting and measuring ground deformation and creating predictive models.
News
May 31, 2023
InSAR image of Hawaii, Big Island, with colors indicating land movement over time; tightest concentration of land movement is over the Mauna Loa volcano near the center of the image

Big Data Meet Open Science

A NASA-funded project is making synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data easier to work with—and preparing NASA for a SAR data explosion.
Feature Article
May 30, 2023
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