NovaSAR-1 CEOS-ARD products available

CSIRO operates Australia’s share of the NovaSAR-1 satellite as a National Facility for research, with registered users able to access the CSIRO NovaSAR-1 National Facility Datahub and submit new tasking requests at any time. The NovaSAR-1 National Facility enables new remote sensing research, supports satellite tasking and operations training, and enhances the development of Australia’s Earth observation and analytics expertise.

CSIRO has well-recognised expertise and capabilities in using satellite-derived data to monitor and manage our environment, including expertise in acquiring, storing, processing and analysing these rapidly growing data sets. However, we recognise that many users and potential users, do not have the same experience or access to the sometimes expensive software to do the same.

Working closely with the international Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (inter-Agency organisation) and its Analysis Ready Data SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) team, under the CEOS Virtual Constellation for Land Surface Imaging (LSI-VC) framework, CSIRO has developed the workflows for generating CEOS-ARD v5.5 NRB compliant NovaSAR-1 ARD products.