JAXA Agency Report Satoko Horiyama MIURA Space Applications
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JAXA Agency Report Satoko Horiyama MIURA Space Applications and Operations Center (SAOC) JAXA
JAXA Earth Observation Satellites Targets (JFY) 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Disasters & Resources [Land Disaster monitoring] ALOS/PALSAR ALOS/PRISM AVNIR 2 ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 [Precipitation] Climate Change & Water Cycle GPM / DPR TRMM/PR TRMM [Wind, SST , Water vapor] Aqua/AMSR-E Aqua GCOM-W / AMSR 2 [Vegetation, aerosol, cloud, SST, ocean color] 250 m, multi-angle, polarization GCOM-C / SGLI Climate Change [Cloud and Aerosol 3 D structure] Earth. CARE / CPR Greenhouse gases [CO 2, Methane] [CO 2, Methane, CO] GOSAT Mission status On orbit GOSAT-2 Phase C/D Phase A/B 2
ALOS DSM (30 -meter) Released on May 18 th http: //www. eorc. jaxa. jp/ALOS/en/aw 3 d 30/index. htm Resolution: 1 arcsec (approx. 30 m mesh) containing 1 deg. lat/long tile. Height accuracy: 5 meters as standard deviation (1 sigma) Composition DSM (Height above sea level, signed 16 bit Geo. TIFF) The calculated elevation value by average (AVE) and median (MED) when resampling from 5 -meter mesh version. The nearest neighbor (NN) is considered in next version) Mask information file (8 bit Geo. TIFF, DN=0: Valid; 1: Clouds, snow and ice (invalid); 2: Land water and low correlation (valid); and 3: Sea) Stacked number file (8 bit Geo. TIFF, DN=number of stacking) Quality assurance Information (ASCII text, add information for 1 arcsec product to original 5 -m mesh DSM information) Header file (ASCII text) • Free of charge • Registration needed Free of Charge Data download (ftp) is available after user registration.
JAXA Himawari Monitor http: //www. eorc. jaxa. jp/ptree/index. html The color images and the quicklook images of the geophysical data from the geostationary satellite of Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Himawari-8 is now available. 4
Disaster Monitoring 1 GPM/DPR observation on September 9 th. 5
Disaster Monitoring-2 River bank was collapsed due to heavy rain. Dark blue area = Possibly covered with water About 13 km TKSC (WGISS-39 venue) ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 observation on September 10 th. 6
JERS-1 Data Distribution JERS-1 data (JAXA archive data only) will become open and free by the end of October via G-Portal(https: //www. gportal. jaxa. jp/gp/). *JERS-1 = (Japanese Earth Resources Satellite -1) Observation : February, 1992 – October, 1998 Instruments SAR : Resolution 18 m OPS (VNIR & SWIR): Resolution 18 m 7
