Primary Convener:
Ekaterina Tymofyeyeva, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCSD

Convener:
Alexandra Christensen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kathryn Materna, University of Colorado at Boulder
Molly Zebker, University of California San Diego

Chair:
Alexandra Christensen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kathryn Materna, University of Colorado at Boulder
Molly Zebker, University of California San Diego

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Mission launched successfully on July 30, 2025, and will begin distributing science data as early as mid-October 2025, ramping up to full science operations – collecting all land and ice-covered surfaces every 12 days from ascending and descending orbit vantage points - in early November 2025. These data will be freely and openly distributed from the NASA Alaska Satellite Facility within days of acquisition. NISAR observations are capable of addressing fundamental and applied research topics spanning disciplines that include ecosystems science, cryosphere science, geodesy, solid earth science, hydrology, disaster response, and resource management. This session invites contributions from those who plan to dive into these early data sets and evaluate their quality as well as showcasing early results, with a focus on the potential these data hold for scientific analysis. Contributions from all discipline areas are welcome.

Index Terms
1240 Satellite geodesy: results

Cross-Listed:
NH - Natural Hazards
C - Cryosphere
B - Biogeosciences
H - Hydrology

Neighborhoods:
2. Earth Interior