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Jun.30.2020

AMSR Viewer was released.

AMSR Earth Environment Viewer (AMSR Viewer) is a display system for a global earth observation data observed by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) series consisting of GCOM-W/AMSR2 and Aqua/AMSR-E.
The AMSR Viewer provides daily images of observation data (brightness temperature) and estimated geophysical data since June 2002.

Mar. 20. 2019

The delayed provision of AMSR2 product (March 18, 2019)

Realtime processing and provision resumed at 9:00 (UT) on March 19, 2019.
We will provide until the end of March the poducts that are currently not available.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.

[Mar. 19 2019 Published]
There has been a delay in the provision of AMSR2 products from 12:00 (UT) on March 18, 2019.
We are still working for recovery of service, and we will contact you when the service resumes.

Jan. 31. 2019

The AMSR2 new research product "Total Precipitable Water over Land and Detection of Thin Sea Ice" were released AMSR2 research products are being distributed on the GCOM-W research product providing service website.

Jan. 18, 2019

Reprocessing several files of All-weather Sea surface Wind speed

We reprocessed several Level 2 and 3 files of the AMSR2 All-weather Sea surface Wind speed (ASW) research products(V301) due to problem in missing data handling.
All affected files (Ten L2 files from July 2012 to December 2018 and L3 files that use those affected L2 files as input) have been replaced with new files. Details are as listed.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Dec. 20, 2018

Missing period of the AMSR2 data

The AMSR2 global observation was temporarily suspended from 06:13 to 16:55 Dec. 16, 2018 (UTC)
and observation data of that period was missed.
Currently, observation and data distribution of AMSR2 are back to normal.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Nov. 19, 2018

Since some of the products processed on November 15, 2018 were incomplete,
we have temporarily stopped publishing the product.
Details are as listed.

Oct. 17, 2018

Issue of the 2nd Research Announcement on the Earth Observations

Sep. 10, 2018

HTTPS-Everywhere for EORC

The Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) entire webpages will be the HTTPS-Only on 26, September.
-> For more information, please refer to this page.

Aug. 10, 2018

HTTPS-Everywhere for EORC

The Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) entire webpages will be the HTTPS-Only from middle of September this year.
-> For more information, please refer to this page.

Apr. 19, 2018

HTTPS-Everywhere for EORC

The Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) entire webpages will be the HTTPS-Only from October this year.
-> For more information, please refer to this page.

Mar.14, 2018

GCOM-C/SGLI images were released at "Sea Ice Distribution in the Sea of Okhotsk"

Feb. 2, 2018

The AMSR2 new research product "Land Surface Temperature" was released

AMSR2 research products are being distributed on the GCOM-W research product providing service website.

Jan. 12, 2018

First Light images from GCOM-C were released

Jan. 11, 2018

The new version of AMSR2 research product "All-weather Sea Surface Wind Speed" was released

AMSR2 research products are being distributed on the GCOM-W research product providing service website.

Nov. 27, 2017

The AMSR2 Global Data Distribution Resumed

The AMSR2 global observation data distribution was suspended from 10:32 Nov. 25 to 00:38 Nov. 26, 2017 (UTC), but the AMSR2 observation data distribution was resumed. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Nov. 14, 2017

Our Web, FTP service will be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance during the following period:
01:00-06:30(UTC), Nov. 15

Nov. 10, 2017

Joint PI Meeting of Global Environment Observation Mission 2017 homepage was opened.

Oct. 27, 2017

Launch of Global Changing Observation Mission - Climate "SHIKISAI" (GCOM-C) and Super Low Altitude Test Satellite "TSUBAME" (SLATS) aboard H-IIA Vehicle No. 37

Mar. 1, 2017

We will release the new version (Ver.3.0) of the following AMSR2 products on March 1, 2017.

Sea Surface Temperature (SST), Sea Surface Wind Speed (SSW), Sea Ice Concentration (SIC), Soil Moisture Content (SMC)
-> For more information, please refer to this page.

Dec. 20, 2016

Joint PI Meeting of Global Environment Observation Mission 2016 homepage was opened.

Sep. 7, 2016

The 1st Research Announcement on Earth Observation

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is announcing the first research announcement (RA) for each earth observation satellite project.
The deadline for submitting proposals is November 15, 2016.
-> How to apply

Aug. 23, 2016

We will release the new version (Ver.2.2) of AMSR2 Brightness Temperature products on August 23, 2016.

This version update will not influence on the accuracy of products because the retrieval algorithm itself is not changed. Regarding the old version products, JAXA is going to reprocess and provide them in sequence.
-> For more information, please refer to this page (User registration is required to use the products).

Dec. 3, 2015

"Sea Ice Distribution in the Sea of Okhotsk" was restarted.

Nov. 30, 2015

Seen from space "El Nino phenomenon being close to the strongest on record"

Nov. 19, 2015

Joint PI Meeting of Global Environment Observation Mission 2015 homepage was opened.

Oct. 9, 2015

The validation results of the AMSR2 research product ["All-weather Sea surface Wind Speed" and the "10-GHz (high resolution) Sea Surface Temperature"] were released. You can get them.

-> From here

Oct. 6, 2015

AMSR2 research product "All-weather Sea Surface Wind Speed" product is now open to public.

-> Get Data

Aug. 31, 2015

GCOM Sixth Research Announcement

JAXA is announcing the sixth research announcement (RA), which is the opportunity to conduct algorithm development, validation preparation, and application research for the first satellite of the GCOM-C (Climate) series, GCOM-C, as well as multi-sensor research mainly using data from GCOM-C.
The deadline for submitting proposals is November 1, 2015.
-> How to apply

Dec. 3, 2014

"Sea Ice Distribution in the Sea of Okhotsk" was restarted.

Dec. 2, 2014

Joint PI Meeting of Global Environment Observation Mission 2014 homepage was opened.

Jul. 23, 2014

AMSR2-based El-nino watch page updated.

After the AMSR-E observations were stopped, WindSat data had been used as alternative data. however, WindSat data were replaced by AMSR2 data since July 2012.

Jul. 9, 2014

GPM/DPR images are added to the JAXA Tropical Cyclone Real-Time Monitoring.

Precipitation images by Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) onboard the GPM Core Observatory are added to the JAXA Tropical Cyclone Real-Time Monitoring web page.
-> JAXA Tropical Cyclone Real-Time Monitoring

Dec. 18, 2013

JAXA/EORC Tropical Cyclone Database by AMSR2 was released.

Dec. 2, 2013

AMSR-E Slow Rotation Data has been released

The AMSR-E automatically halted its observations and rotation on October 4, 2011 (UTC) due to increased rotation friction. After then NASA and JAXA began to analyze the situation and had been seeking for the way to restart AMSR-E observation. And on December 4, 2012 (UTC,) the AMSR-E restarted its observations and rotation with slow rotation (2 rotations per minute). JAXA completed initial radiometric and geometric correction for slow rotation data, and now AMSR-E Slow Rotation Data is available to public users.
This data is useful for users who cross-calibrate AMSR-E with other radiometers and who try to research using new feature by slow rotation and so on. This data is not JAXA's standard product. AMSR2 Standard Product is available for general user.
The detail is described in the following page.
-> AMSR-E Slow Rotation Data

Nov. 29, 2013

Joint PI Workshop of Global Environment Observation Mission 2013 homepage was opened.

Aug. 23, 2013

GCOM Fifth Research Announcement

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is announcing the fifth research announcement (RA), which is the opportunity to conduct algorithm improvement, validation, and application research for the first satellite of the GCOM-W (Water) series, GCOM-W1, as well as multi-sensor research mainly using data from GCOM-W1.
The deadline for submitting proposals is November 15, 2013.
-> How to apply

Jul. 12, 2013

Due to the network maintenance, your connection may be closed during the following period:

Jul. 13-14, 2013.

May 17, 2013

SHIZUKU (GCOM-W1) to Provide Earth's Physical Quantity Products.