Terra, the first Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite was launched on December 18, 1999. ASTER is one of five state-of-the-art instrument sensor systems on-board Terra, with a unique combination of wide spectral coverage and high spatial resolution in the visible near-infrared through shortwave infrared to the thermal infrared regions.

The ASTER module was built by a consortium of Japanese government, industry and research groups. ASTER data is expected to contribute to a wide array of global change-related application areas including vegetation and ecosystem dynamics, hazard monitoring, geology and soils, land surface climatology, hydrology, and land cover change.

Features unique to ASTER are:

bullet the Visible Near Infra-Red (VNIR) telescope’s backward viewing band for high resolution along-track stereoscopic observation
bullet multispectral thermal infrared data of high spatial resolution
bullet highest spatial resolution surface spectral reflectance, temperature and emissivity data within the Terra instrument suite.
15m VNIR DEM
ASTER VNIR ASTER DEM

Geoimage offers various ASTER services, such as data search/download, format conversion, DEM generation, orthorectification, spectral processing and production of stereo hardcopy. The following flyers are available:

bulletGeneral information and pricing (254k)
bulletChuquicamata Mine example (405k)
bulletBrazil DEM example (755k)
bulletEscondida Spectral Processing example (1.3Mb)
bulletStereo SatMaps (332k)

Please download these and contact us to discuss ASTER imagery and your application.