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JAXA Agency JAXA Agency ReportReport

JAXA Agency JAXA Agency ReportReport

May 25, 2007May 25, 2007

Satoko Horiyama MIURASatoko Horiyama MIURAJAXA/EORCJAXA/EORC

May 25, 2007May 25, 2007

Satoko Horiyama MIURASatoko Horiyama MIURAJAXA/EORCJAXA/EORC

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Office of Space Applications

Program Management and Integration Department

Space Application Program Systems Engineering Office

Safety and Mission Assurance Office

Satellite Operations Engineering Department

Satellite Applications and Promotion Center

Earth Observation Research Center (EORC)

GOSAT Project Team

GCOM Project Team

GPM/DPR Project Team

Organization relating to EO

http://www.jaxa.jp/about/org/index_e.html

Satellite Operation,Incl. Mission operation

International Charter "Space and Major Disasters", Sentinel Asia, CEOS Plenary/SIT, GEO, Satellite data promotion

Development for data receiving/recording/processing/archiving system,[Aqua/AMSR-E, TRMM, ALOS, GOSAT, GPM, Earthcare, GCOM-W…]CEOS/WGISS, CEOS/WGCV, data analysis, etc

16 staffs

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ALOS / DaichiJapanese Earth

Resources Satellite-1 (JERS-1)

© JAXA

ALOS

Enhanced land-observation technology

© JAXA

© JAXA

PRISMPanchromatic Remote sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping

PALSAR Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar

© JAXA AVNIR-2 Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2

• Disaster monitoring• Cartography• Regional observation• Resources surveying

Advanced Earth Observing Satellite

(ADEOS)

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ALOS Observation for disasters (1)

Earthquake in Noto Peninsular , Japan 　 [March 25, 2007(JST)]

The change of distance between ALOS and the Earth in 47 days (between Feb. 23 and April 10) is indicated by the two-dimensional colors in the image.

A maximum of 45 centimeters of rise

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ALOS Observation for disasters (2)

Earthquake in Solomon Islands [April 2, 2007]

<< PALSAR interferometry>>

The maximum uplift in 47 days (between April 16 and March 1) to the satellite direction within the New Georgia island is measured 2.2 meter.

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ALOS Data Distribution (1)

For “English (=non Japanese) usersAUIG(ALOS User Interface Gateway) ver1.0 is available

https://auig.eoc.jaxa.jp/auigs/en/top/index.htmlCatalog is open to public

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ALOS Data Distribution (2)For Japanese usersAUIG(ALOS User Interface Gateway) ver2.0 is now available

https://auig2.eoc.jaxa.jp/auig2s/jp/top/index.htmlCatalog is open to public

English version will be released in early of next JFY !

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Contribution to GEO

1. “Architecture Implementation Pilot Call for Participation (CFP)”

• Catalog server and WCS, ready to be tested before Kick-off meeting (June, 5-6)

2. Sentinel Asia

3. Precipitation Constellation (GPM/DPR)

4. …

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Contribution to IPY

• Target : Release of ALOS mapping data for south-polar region 3 times On- going !

© METI, JAXA