ALOS Kyoto & Carbon Mosaics by JAXA#
This module have been designed on top of the interactive framework sepal_ui. it allows the user to extract ALOS K&C mosaics. The input are as simple as: an AOI, a year, and some filters. The user will be able to display the mosaic in an interactive map and export it as a GEE asset and/or a sepal Tif file.
This module is a sepalization of the follwing script by A. Vollrath.
The process is done in 3 steps described in the bellow sections and presented in the bellow video tutorial:
Select an AOI#
Using the provided AOI selector, select an AOI of your choice between the different methods available in the tool. We provide 3 administration descriptions (from level 0 to 2) and 3 custom shapes (drawn directly on the map, asset or shapefile).

aoi selector#
Note
If a custom aoi from shape or drawing is selected, you will be able to use it directly and the upload to GEE will be launched in the background
Process mosaic#
Then in the process tile, you need to set the different parameters of your mosaic:
year: The year of interest
speckle filter: the speckle filter to use during the process
no filter
refined lee: speckle noise removal technique based on the well-knwown Lee Filter. More information in A. S. Yommy et. Al.
Quegan filter: S. Quegan et. Al
shadow masking: activate or deactivate the shadow masking
Db: wether or not to scale the output to Db
Once you are happy with your parameters, you can click on the button. The dataset will be automatically send to the vizualization tile.

dataset parameters#
Display dataset#
As mentioned in the above section, the dataset is automatically displayed on the map. THis map is interactive allowing you to zoom in and out. Note that you can select betwee 3 diplay options:
Backscatter RGB (HH, HV, HH/HV power ratio)
Radar Forest Degradation Index (RFDI, Mitchard et al. 2012)
Forest/Non-Forest

display informations#
Export dataset#
Once you’re happy with the information displayed then can be exported to be further used in a GIS software or in a GEE process. The tool provide 2 main exportation options, as an asset(in GEE) or as a Tif file in SEPAL.
Both use the GEE export system and share the same set of parameter:
Export Backscatter (HH, HV, HH/HV power ratio)
Export/Add Radar Forest Degradation Index (RFDI, Mitchard et al. 2012)
Export/Add GLCM texture layers for HH and HV polarizations (Variance, Homogeneity, Dissimilarity)
Export/Add auxiliary metadata layers (Acq. Date, LIA, QA layer)
Export K&C Forest/Non-Forest map (separate file)
set the resolution as an integer number
Note
The default export parameter are 25 meters resolution with backscatter and RFDI

export#
Danger
When the image is exported to SEPAL, you cannot quit the application until the downloading is finished.