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The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) was developed to contribute to the fields of mapping, precise regional land-coverage observation, disaster monitoring, and resource surveying.

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Instruments Aboard ALOS

Instrument Name Operational Date(s) Spectral Resolution Type of Instrument
Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer Type 2 (AVNIR-2) 2006 - 2011

Band 1: 0.42 to 0.50 micrometers
Band 2: 0.52 to 0.60 micrometers
Band 3: 0.61 to 0.69 micrometers
Band 4: 0.76 to 0.89 micrometers

 Spectrometer/Radiometer
Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) 2006 - 2011

None

 Imaging Radar
Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM)

image spectrometer: 350 to 1050 nm; 246 bands in approximately 2.85-nm intervals 

spot spectrometers: 1240 and 1640 nm 

 Spectrometer/Radiometer

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