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NISAR Documents

Name Sort descending Description File Type Date Published
NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Mission Science Users’ Handbook - second edition The NISAR Science Users Handbook was first published in 2019, offering an introduction to many mission science and applications objectives. The second edition was released in October 2025, shortly after the July 2025 launch of the satellite. The revised handbook reflects the evolution of aspects of the mission, while providing new information and expanded descriptions of the science and applications enabled by NISAR. PDF (92.26 mb) Oct. 1, 2025
SNWG NISAR North America Fact Sheet This is a one-pager developed by the Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) team to highlight capabilities. PDF (935.73 kb) Nov. 1, 2024
SNWG NISAR Soil Moisture Fact Sheet PDF (1.38 mb) Nov. 1, 2024

NISAR Learning Resources

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Explore 25 tutorials that demonstrate how to use NISAR sample data in a GIS environment; using Panoply; and transforming the data using GDAL commands.
Tutorial
Dec. 12, 2023
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NISAR News

In preparation for NISAR—the NASA/ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) Synthetic Aperture Radar mission—NASA is working to ensure that mission metadata is compatible with existing standards and best practices.
News
March 11, 2025
As an expert in interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), Dr. Bekaert is on the cutting edge of data science.
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