1 JAXA Agency Report Oct. 19, 2007 Satoko Horiyama MIURA JAXA/EORC Oct. 19, 2007 Satoko Horiyama MIURA JAXA/EORC

2 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.) Before the separationAfter the separation

3 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 To be launched in the next JFY

GCOM-W (GCOM : Global Change Observation Mission) 4 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.

5 ALOS / Daichi Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1 ( JERS-1 ) © JAXA ALOS Enhanced land-observation technology © JAXA PRISM Panchromatic 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 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 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 10 AMSR-E Sea Ice Concentration (1image / 1 day, since June 20 th, 2002)

11 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 train 2hours via car using “toll-road(about $25 /one way)” Earth Observation Center

12 Current Status 1.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 !).

13 Contribution to GEO 1.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

Wiring Diagram: Volcano

15 Architecture Implementation Pilot Demonstration Video Click !