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JAXA Agency JAXA Agency ReportReport

JAXA Agency JAXA Agency ReportReport

Oct. 19, 2007Oct. 19, 2007

Satoko Horiyama MIURASatoko Horiyama MIURAJAXA/EORCJAXA/EORC

Oct. 19, 2007Oct. 19, 2007

Satoko Horiyama MIURASatoko Horiyama MIURAJAXA/EORCJAXA/EORC

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The lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE)

• Launched at 10:31:01 a.m. on Sep. 17 (JST) • One of its onboard baby satellites, the VRAD

satellite, was released at 1:28 p.m. on Oct. 12 (JST). "OKINA" and "OUNA" were respectively chosen as nicknames for the Relay satellite and the VRAD satellite in relation with Princess KAGUYA from the Japanese old tale "Taketori Monogatari" (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.)

http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/index_e.htm

Before the separation After the separation

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Number and distribution of ground-based CO2 monitoring stations is not enough.Satellite data from global and frequent observation is needed.

~’91 ’92~

Observing Station

Provided by NIES

GOSAT

© JAXA

Objectives•To observe the distribution of the concentration of CO2 and to confirm both the amounts and the area of CO2 sources and sinks.

•To observe the distribution of the concentration of other greenhouse gases e.g. CH4 in order to understand global warming more precisely.

Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite <GOSAT>

To be launched in the next JFY

GCOM-W(GCOM : Global Change Observation Mission)

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AMSR-2(Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-2)

Solar Array Paddle

1. Launch Schedule : 2011 (JFY, planned)2. Target for Observation : Precipitation, Water Vapor, Sea

Surface Wind, Sea Surface Temperature, Soil Moisture, Snow Depth, etc.

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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)

Disaster Observations (1)Mt. Melapi volcano, Indonesia observed by AVNIR-2 & PALSAR

AVNIR-2

PALSAR© JAXA © JAXA

The crater cracked, and volcanic fumes were rising about 100 meters high from the crater on April 11, 2006.

Disaster Observations (2)

Heavy rains caused rivers in the Chubut, Neuquén and Río Negro regions in Argentina to flood, threatening dams downstream.

Flooding observed by PRISM

© JAXA

Disaster Observations (3)Earthquakes observed by PALSAR

© METI/JAXA

© METI/JAXA

The surface rise at the New Georgia islands caused by Solomon earthquake(M8.1 Earthquake on April2, 2007)The surface rise at Noto Peninsular in Japan

caused by Earthquake (March 25, 2007)

Disaster Observations (4)

About 100 ships were trapped in sea ice off the coast of Newfoundland-Labrador.

© METI/JAXA

Ice Jam observed by PALSAR

Arctic Sea-Ice Monitor by Aqua/AMSR-E

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http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/cgi-bin/seaice-monitor.cgi

AMSR-E Sea Ice Concentration

(1image / 1 day, since June 20th, 2002)

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EOC & TKSC

EOC(Earth Observation Center)•GOSAT & GCOM(TBD) : Mission data reception & recording (TBD)•ALOS: Mission data reception, recording, processing, archiving and distribution•Aqua/AMSR-E & TRMM/PR: Mission data processing, archiving and distribution•Previous Satellites (ADEOS, ADEOS-II, etc) : Data archiving and distribution

TKSC(TsuKuba Space Center)•GOSAT & GCOM(TBD): Mission data processing, archiving and distribution•Aqua/AMSR-E, TRMM/PR & other previous Satellites (ADEOS, ADEOS-II, etc) : Data archiving (B/U)

3 hours via train2hours via car using “toll-road(about $25 /one way)”

Earth Observation Center

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Current Status1. At EOC & TKSC

Remote Control of EOC receiving & recording from TKSC is now being prepared.

2. At TKSC Data Archiving for AMSR-E, TRMM and other

previous satellite started (as B/U of EOC archive).3. At EOC

System replacement of ALOS mission data receiving, recording, processing, archiving and distribution is on-going.

ALOS mission data archiving media will be changed to LTO-3 from DTF-2. Data copy will start by the end of this year (1 TB ALOS mission data / day !).

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Contribution to GEO1. Sentinel Asia

2. Precipitation Constellation (GPM/DPR)

3. “Architecture Implementation Pilot” (1) Original Plan: to set-up catalog server and WCS

server (as prototype systems)

(2) Results : to set-up WMS server and web client (as prototype systems)

(3) Lessons & Learned on catalog server set-up Profiles : ISO or CS-W ? Which CS-W ? COTS usage : Difference of “original version “ vs “Japanese

version”, incl. support framework

(4) Demonstration video is available at 　　　 http://www.ogcnetwork.net/AIPdemos

Wiring Diagram: Volcano

* NASA/ EO-1 data* J AXA/ ALOS data

PC[Step 1]

Operator in Disaster Monitoring Office

CAP alert server @ USGSWCS server @ J AXA

(tree)

WMS server @ J AXA(fire)

catalog server @ J AXA(eagle)

Darwin VAAC @Bureau of Meteorology

Disaster Monitoring Office

Clearinghouse @ ESRI

PC[Step 6]

PC[Step 2]

PC[Step 5]

PC[Step 4]

PC[Step 3]

PC[Step 7]

PC[Step 8]

[Step 0]

Introduction

[Step 9]

Epilogue

CAP alert RSS feed

CAP alert(Eruption)

on GEO portal

Access to Indonesia info.

Indonesia land usage/ coverage on map viewer

CAP alert (VAAC)on GEO portal

Start to access to GEOSS Clearinghouse

CSW2.0Z39.50

Search for satellite data using GEOSS Clearinghouse

# Keyword : “Merapi”# period : J une, 2006

from CAP aleart

WCS/ WMS server URL info.

Start to access to J AXA Web client

WCS IF using Mapserver

WMS IF using Mapserver

J AXA Web client @ J AXA(tree)

Information to be overlaid*Geographic information*Population density*Land cover*ALOS images*EO-1 images

Volcanic Ash Advisory

GEO portal @ ESA/ FAO

Mash up various info. on J AXA Web client

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Architecture Implementation Pilot Demonstration Video

• Click !