The Alaska Satellite Facility solicits your input regarding the direction for development of our SAR data software tools. Our goal is to make ASF data more readily used by our customers. Your responses regarding the manner in which you currently handle ASF and other remote sensing data and your suggestions for improving our tools will help us identify and prioritize development tasks. ASF sincerely appreciates your taking the time to give us your opinions. Thank you! 1. What software do you use to analyze ASF SAR data? ? ASF SAR software tools ? Commercial image processing and analysis tools Please list: ______________________________ ? A combination of ASF and commercial tools Please list: ______________________________ ? Other ______________________________________ 2. How did you hear about ASF software tools? ? ASF staff ? Colleague ? Web ? Other _______________________________________ 3. Which ASF software tools do you use? ? General (Examples: sarin, remap) ? Geometry (Examples: geocode, projprm) ? Interferometry (Examples: aisp, coh) ? Terrain correction (Examples: terrcorr, sarsim) ? Visualization (Example: sarview) ? None 4. What new features or improvements would you like to see in any of the existing ASF software tools? 5. Have you used the web tutorials for the ASF tools? (http://www.asf.alaska.edu/apd/software/tutorial/index.html) ? Yes ? No 6. Is the online documentation for the ASF tools helpful? ? Very helpful ? Somewhat helpful ? Not very helpful ? Don't know 7. How could ASF improve technical support for ASF data and software tools? 8. Would you use ASF tools more frequently if they were GUI-based? ? Yes ? No 9. What operating systems do you use for image processing and analysis? ? Solaris ? IRIX ? Linux ? Windows ? Mac ? Other _______________________________________ 10. To which operating system would you most like to see ASF tools expanded? ? Linux ? Windows ? Mac ? Other _______________________________________ 11. Which commercial software do you use to analyze ASF data? ? ENVI ? ERDAS ? PCI ? ERMapper ? ESRI ? Other _______________________________________ ? None 12. What new tools should ASF develop to support the SAR community? 13. How could ASF make ASF data more easily used with your non-ASF software? 14. Which formats do you prefer for remote sensing data? ? GeoTIFF ? HDF ? HDF-EOS ? ASCII ? BIL (Binary with ESRI .hdr) ? LAS (Binary with .ddr) ? NITF ? CEOS ? Other _______________________________________ 15. What kinds of remote sensing data do you use? ? RADARSAT ? ERS ? JERS ? AIRSAR ? IKONOS ? Landsat ? SPOT ? QuickBird ? ASTER ? MODIS ? AVHRR ? GOES ? SeaWiFS ? Other _______________________________________ 16. Would you use an Internet forum for technical discussion and customer feedback regarding ASF data and tools? ? Yes ? No 17. Which of these uncalibrated RADARSAT-1 beam modes would you like to be calibrated? ? EL1 (Extended low 1) ? SWA (ScanSAR Wide A) ? SNA (ScanSAR Narrow A) ? SNB (ScanSAR Narrow B) ? F2 (Fine 2) ? F3 (Fine 3) ? F4 (Fine 4) ? F5 (Fine 5) 18. Are there specific problems or limitations with ASF products or beam modes that you would like to see improved? 19. Please describe your overall satisfaction with ASF data quality.