Partners

The GRFM project has several partnerships that have enabled the project to succeed. They are described below.

GRFM Research Invitation Program

The GRFM Research Invitation program consists of scientists from around the world that are actively analysing data from the GRFM project.

National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)

Earth Observation Research Center (EORC)
Tokyo, Japan

NASDA's EORC is responsible for overall GRFM project management. This includes mission planning, coordination and implementation of science/engineering objectives and activities with the project partners, web site and CD-ROM development with JPL, and mosaicking. JERS-1 data acquisition and monitoring for the project as a whole, high-resolution data processing for the Africa and South East Asia datasets, and calibration of data products are also coordinated through NASDA's Earth Observation Center (EOC) in Hatoyama, Japan. Data analyses are conducted with particular emphasis placed on the South East Asia dataset.
Contact :
Victor Taylor victor@eorc.nasda.go.jp
Masanobu Shimada shimada@hermes.eorc.nasda.go.jp

Joint Research Center of the European Commission

Space Applications Institute

Ispra, Italy

The JRC/SAI is responsible for low resolution data processing, generation of image mosaics and analysis of data from Western, Central and Eastern Africa, and from Madagascar. Raw data processing is performed by NASDA, while radiometric verification and additional calibration of the data is performed by JRC/SAI.
Contact :
Ake Rosenqvist ake.rosenqvist@jrc.it
Frank DeGrandi gianfranco.degrandi@jrc.it

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Pasadena, California, USA

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for low resolution data processing and analysis of data from South and Central America. This includes monitoring the data acquisitions and processing of the data at the Alaska SAR facility, generating low resolution data products, verification of the calibration of the ASF data, web site and cd-rom development, and mosaicking. JPL is also working with other institutions such as the Unversity of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and National Institute for Research of the Amazon(INPA) on validation of the interpretation of the data.
Contact :
Bruce Chapman bruce.chapman@jpl.nasa.gov

The Alaska SAR Facility (ASF)

Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

The Alaska SAR Facility is responsible for the processing and calibration of the data from South and Central America to full resolution data products. In addition, a large number of data acquisitions are downlinked to ASF.
Contact :
User Services Organization uso@eosims.asf.alaska.edu