ALOS PALSAR products verification

ALOS, an enhanced successor of the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS-1), was launched from JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center in January 2006. An important contribution to the ALOS mission is the verification of PALSAR products to be distributed by the European ADEN node using the PALSAR processor developed by JAXA. A total of 28 ALOS PALSAR products have been analysed with respect to radiometric, geometric and polarimetric quality (including effects of Faraday rotation caused by the ionosphere) and a summary of the results is shown in this paper.