title: JERS-1
text: # JERS-1
  
  Japanese Earth Resources Satellite 1 (JERS-1) was a satellite launched in 1992 by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA, now part of JAXA). It carried three instruments:
  
  * An L-band (HH polarization) synthetic aperture radar (SAR);
  * A nadir-pointing optical camera (OPS);
  * A side-looking optical camera (AVNIR).
  
  The satellite operated until 1998 and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere in 2001.
  
  