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May 18, 2022
    The Global Change Observation Satellite - Water (GCOM-W), which was launched at 1:39 JST on May 18 (16:39 UTC on May 17), 2012, has achieved its 10-year anniversary today. Both the GCOM-W satellite and on-board instrument, AMSR2, continues operation in healthy condition after designed mission life of 5-year.
    We are currently working on preparation for successor mission, the GOSAT-GW satellite, to be launched in JFY 2023. Thank you for your past contributions and we hope your continuous supports to the AMSR series.
Apr.19,2022
    (Resumed) AMSR Viewer were not available.

    AMSR Viewer had not been available since March 22nd, 2022.
    We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Mar.14,2022
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Apr. 21, 2021
Mar. 18, 2021
    (Resumed) AMSR2 SST L3 standard product are not available.
  • The provision of AMSR2 SST L3 standard products have been resumed at 06:00 (UTC) on March 16.
    The products of observation period from October 14, 2020 to March 15, 2021 will be provided as soon as processed.

    We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Oct. 28, 2020
    AMSR2 SST L3 standard product are not available.
  • AMSR2 SST L3 standard product have not been available since October 14th, 2020.
    We will inform you as soon as the distribution is resumed.
    We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.
Oct. 12, 2020
    We will release the new version (Ver.4.0) of the following AMSR2 products on October 13, 2020.
  • Sea Surface Temperature (SST),
    10GHz Sea Surface Temperature (10GHz SST),
    Multi-band Sea Surface Temperature (Multi-band SST),
    Sea Surface Wind Speed (SSW)
    -> For more information, please refer to this page.
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.
Apr. 13, 2020
    The mail server recovery
  • The mail server trouble has been fixed.
    We can now receive the inquiry e-mails as usual.
    Sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
Apr. 13, 2020
    The mail server trouble
  • Due to the mail server trouble, some inquiry e-mails to xx@ml.jaxa.jp may not be reached to us.
    Currently we are working on recovery efforts.Sorry for any inconvenience.
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.
Mar. 7, 2019
    Due to the system maintenance, the AMSR2 research products update will be suspended from 02:30 Mar 14, 2019 to 05:00 (UTC).
Jan. 31, 2019
    The AMSR2 new research product "Total Precipitable Water over Land and Detection of Detection of Thin Sea Ice" were released AMSR2 research products are being distributed on the GCOM-W Research Product Distribution 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 (Then 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.
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