UNAVCO WInSAR Archive Status

Date of latest addition to the UNAVCO WInSAR archive: 2010-03-11

Scene Counts

Mission	scene count	data size, GB
ENV1	2438	469.344
ERS1	2084	391.288
ERS2	4926	770.811
Total	9448	1631.44

A scene is one SAR data file with a continuous signal; it may have one or more frame.

Frame Counts

Mission	GeoEarthScope	Winsar	ordered	requested
ERS	44820	6954	246	0
Envisat	8310	2951	2	0

Text files of UNAVCO WInSAR scene metadata

ASCII listing of the URLs of all data files in the UNAVCO WInSAR archive.

Comma separated value file of UNAVCO WInSAR archive data with coordinates.

Scenes Ordered with Status Spreadsheets

Year and Month	Envisat	ERS
2008 September	0	20
2008 October	61	24
2008 November	46	7
2008 December	62	0
2009 January	42	2
2009 February	215	0
2009 March	685	53
2009 April	443	0
2009 May	384	57
2009 June	423	84
2009 July	320	66
2009 August	308	54
2009 September	439	12
2009 October	272	22
2009 November	483	31
2009 December	243	8
2010 January	315	14
2010 February	346	3

Maps of UNAVCO WInSAR scene locations

To make maps of SAR data in the UNAVCO WInSAR archive, use the
UNAVCO SAR Archive Search Interface.

Sample maps of UNAVCO WInSAR scene locations


UNAVCO WInSAR ERS1, 24 April 2009


UNAVCO WInSAR ERS2, 24 April 2009


WInSAR Envisat, 24 April 2009

Google Earth data files for the UNAVCO SAR Archive

You can make your own KML files of scenes in the UNAVCO WInSAR archive using the UNAVCO WInSAR search tool or the UNAVCO SAR Archive Search Interface.

UNAVCO catalogs the ASF L1 Data Pool

Map of some ASF Data Pool ALOS PALSAR scenes cataloged at UNAVCO on April 25, 2009

As a service to WInSAR data users, UNAVCO catalogs the ASF "Data Pool" of PALSAR data files. 31408 level 0 PALSAR scenes were in the Data Pool and cataloged by UNAVCO on 05 August 2009, up from 8745 on November 11, 2008.

You can use UNAVCO's WInSAR search tool to find PALSAR files in the ASF "L1 Data Pool" (use choice "Archive Location" of ASF). To obtain the files, apply to the ASF SAR Data Center. See also our page about ALOS PALSAR data.

We have a spreadsheet with information about most ASF Data Pool holdings for download.


Map of Alaskan ASF Data Pool ALOS PALSAR scenes cataloged at UNAVCO on Feb. 15, 2009