Climatology Meteorology Atmosphere
ADEOS OCTS L3BM GAC OCP 1day dataset is obtained from OCTS sensor onboard ADEOS and produced by NASDA (National Space Development Agency of Japan). Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) is sun-synchronous quasi-recurrent orbiter launched on August 17, 1996, and carries OCTS (Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner) and AVNIR (Advanced Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer) sensor.The main objectives of ADEOS (MIDORI) is to contribute to elucidation of phenomena of the earth system through integrated observation of geophysical parameters using a number of sensors. ADEOS operation on orbit was given up on June 30, 1997, because the generated power was lost due to the accident of the blanket of the solar array paddle breaking. OCTS observes the amount of chlorophyll and various substances contained in the sea, sea surface temperature, cloud formation process, etc by receiving 12 bands of wavelengths from the visible light region to the thermal infrared region. The observation field of OCTS is about 1400km, and it is possible to scan in the north-south direction. Those sensors aim at collecting global data for mainly understanding the state of the ocean and its phenomena.This product is daily L3BM, Level 3 binned map GAC (Global Area Coverage) OCP (Ocean Color-CZCS like pigment concentration) product. Level 3 Binned map products are generated from Level 3 Binned products and classified into three subproducts: ocean color, vegetation, and sea surface temperature. GAG OCL product is daily or weekly, monthly, annually integrate. This product is one of the Ocean Color product stores, and these parameters are array of CZCS-like pigment concentration and palette data. The unit of geophysical quantity in this product is "mg/m-3". The provided format is HDF4 format. The image data object, 13m-data, in each binned map product is a byte-valued, 4,096 * 2,048 array of an Equal-Area Rectangular projection of the globe
ADEOS OCTS L3 GAC Binned Map Ocean Color (OCP) (1-Day)
The user is entitled to use G-Portal data free of charge without any restrictions (including commercial use) except for the condition about acknowledgement of data credit as stipulated in G-portal terms of use 7.(2).Click [here](https://gportal.jaxa.jp/gpr/index/eula?lang=en) for detailed G-Portal data usage constrains.
EARTH SCIENCE>OCEANS
EARTH SCIENCE>OCEANS>OCEAN CHEMISTRY
ADEOS-I
OCTS
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EARTH SCIENCE
OCEANS
OCEAN CHEMISTRY
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
JAPAN
JP/JAXA/SAOC

Climatology Meteorology Atmosphere
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 Binned Aerosol radiance (1month, 9km) is obtained from the GLI (Global-Imager) sensor onboard ADEOS-II and produced by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Global environment change has become a worldwide concern in recent years. In order to clarify these environmental changes, the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS-II, renamed "Midori II" after launch) has been developed for the purpose of monitoring the Earth environment using remote sensing technology from space. Midori II carries mission instruments that are particularly dedicated to clarify the water energy cycle and the carbon cycle, and is expected to be utilized for international climate change research programs. GLI an optical sensor that observes the reflected solar radiation from the Earth's surface, including land, oceans and clouds and/or infrared radiation with a multi-channel system for measuring the biological content. The SGLI has a swath of 1600 km. This product includes Aerosol radiance at 865, 380 nm. They are derived from an extension of the OCTS atmospheric correction algorithm. It treated multiple scattering among the aerosol particles and gas molecules, as well as the effects of variable ozone concentration, surface pressure, surface wind speed, and water vapor amount. The atmospheric correction with iterative procedure was developed to avoid the black pixel assumption, and to consider absorptive aerosol. This product includes sum, square sum, max, min of each pixel is included. The provided format is HDF. The physical unit is mW cm^-2 um^-1 sr^-1. The spatial resolution is 9 km and the statistical period is 1 month, also 1 day and 8 days statistics is available. Map projection is EQA. The generation unit is global. The current version of the product is "Version 2".
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 Binned Aerosol radiance (1month,9 km)
The user is entitled to use G-Portal data free of charge without any restrictions (including commercial use) except for the condition about acknowledgement of data credit as stipulated in G-portal terms of use 7.(2).Click [here](https://gportal.jaxa.jp/gpr/index/eula?lang=en) for detailed G-Portal data usage constrains.
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE>AEROSOLS
ADEOS-II
GLI
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EARTH SCIENCE
ATMOSPHERE
AEROSOLS
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
JAPAN
JP/JAXA/SAOC

Climatology Meteorology Atmosphere
ADEOS OCTS L3B GAC OC 1week dataset is obtained from OCTS sensor onboard ADEOS and produced by NASDA (National Space Development Agency of Japan). Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) is sun-synchronous quasi-recurrent orbiter launched on August 17, 1996, and carries OCTS (Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner) and AVNIR (Advanced Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer) sensor.The main objectives of ADEOS (MIDORI) is to contribute to elucidation of phenomena of the earth system through integrated observation of geophysical parameters using a number of sensors. ADEOS operation on orbit was given up on June 30, 1997, because the generated power was lost due to the accident of the blanket of the solar array paddle breaking. OCTS observes the amount of chlorophyll and various substances contained in the sea, sea surface temperature, cloud formation process, etc by receiving 12 bands of wavelengths from the visible light region to the thermal infrared region. The observation field of OCTS is about 1400km, and it is possible to scan in the north-south direction. Those sensors aim at collecting global data for mainly understanding the state of the ocean and its phenomena. This product is weely L3B, Level 3 binned GAC (Global Area Coverage) Ocean Color (OC) product (temporarily and spatially sampled) from level 2 data. GAG OC product is daily or weekly, monthly, annually integrated. Ocean color product stores Bin data, Normalized water-leaving radiance at 412nm, 443nm, 490nm, 520nm, 565nm, Aerosol radiance at 670nm, 765nm, 865nm, epsilon(670 : 865), and tau-a at 865nm.CZCS-like pigment, chlor_a, K_490, and chlor_a_K_490 data. These parameters are sum of natural logs of binned pixel values for corresponding and squares of natural logs of binned pixel values for corresponding each parameter.Normalized water-leaving radiance, Aerosol radiance, epsilon, and tau-a at 865nm data are stored in one subordinate file. The physical quantity unit except epsilon and tau_865 is âmW/cm-2/mm-1/sr-1â. CZCS_pigment is CZCS-like pigment concentration data. The physical quantity unit is "mg/m-3". Chlor_a data is Chlorophyll a concentration data. The physical quantity unit is "mg/m-3". K_490 data is diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm. The physical quantity unit is "m-1". Chlor_a_K_490 is integral chlorophyll, calculated using the Level 2 values chlorophyll a divided by K(490). The physical quantity unit is "mg/m-2".The provided format is HDF4 format.
ADEOS OCTS L3 GAC Binned Ocean Color (1-Week)
The user is entitled to use G-Portal data free of charge without any restrictions (including commercial use) except for the condition about acknowledgement of data credit as stipulated in G-portal terms of use 7.(2).Click [here](https://gportal.jaxa.jp/gpr/index/eula?lang=en) for detailed G-Portal data usage constrains.
EARTH SCIENCE>OCEANS
EARTH SCIENCE>OCEANS>OCEAN CHEMISTRY
ADEOS-I
OCTS
No constraints but users need to be registered with [the G-portal User Registration system](https://gportal.jaxa.jp/gpr/user/regist1?lang=en) to download files.
EARTH SCIENCE
OCEANS
OCEAN CHEMISTRY
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
JAPAN
JP/JAXA/SAOC

ADEOS OCTS L2 RTC OC2 dataset is obtained from OCTS sensor onboard ADEOS and produced by NASDA (National Space Development Agency of Japan). Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) is sun-synchronous quasi-recurrent orbiter launched on August 17, 1996, and carries OCTS (Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner) and AVNIR (Advanced Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer) sensor.The main objectives of ADEOS (MIDORI) is to contribute to elucidation of phenomena of the earth system through integrated observation of geophysical parameters using a number of sensors. ADEOS operation on orbit was given up on June 30, 1997, because the generated power was lost due to the accident of the blanket of the solar array paddle breaking. OCTS observes the amount of chlorophyll and various substances contained in the sea, sea surface temperature, cloud formation process, etc by receiving 12 bands of wavelengths from the visible light region to the thermal infrared region. The observation field of OCTS is about 1400km, and it is possible to scan in the north-south direction. Those sensors aim at collecting global data for mainly understanding the state of the ocean and its phenomena.Â This product is RTC (Real Time Coverage) OC2 (ocean color2) product, transformed to geophysical parameters from level 1B data, includes CZCS-like pigment concentration, Chlorophyll-a concentration, Diffuse attenuation coefficient, and quality information. Furthermore, supplemental data, such as geometric correction information, the OCTS telemetry, quality information, the sun vector, scene information and others are included.The provided format is HDF4 format The Spatial resolution is 700 m.
ADEOS/OCTS L2 RTC Ocean Color (OC2)
EARTH SCIENCE>OCEANS
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE
EARTH SCIENCE>OCEANS>OCEAN CHEMISTRY
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE>AEROSOLS
EARTH SCIENCE>OCEANS>OCEAN OPTICS
ADEOS-I
OCTS
OCEANS
ATMOSPHERE
OCEAN CHEMISTRY
AEROSOLS
OCEAN OPTICS

ADEOS-II/GLI L3 Binned Bulk Sea surface temperature (1day,9km) is obtained from the GLI (Global-Imager) sensor onboard ADEOS-II and produced by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Global environment change has become a worldwide concern in recent years. In order to clarify these environmental changes, the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS-II, renamed "Midori II" after launch) has been developed for the purpose of monitoring the Earth environment using remote sensing technology from space. Midori II carries mission instruments that are particularly dedicated to clarify the water energy cycle and the carbon cycle, and is expected to be utilized for international climate change research programs. GLI an optical sensor that observes the reflected solar radiation from the Earth's surface, including land, oceans and clouds and/or infrared radiation with a multi-channel system for measuring the biological content. The SGLI has a swath of 1600 km. This product includes bulk sea surface temperature which applied the cloud detection and the atmospheric correction. The former is the process to find clear, or no cloud-contaminated, pixels in the image. The combination of the threshold tests is used to detect clouds. The latter is needed to obtain SST of clear pixels from the brightness temperatures observed by GLI. Daytime and night time are separated. This product includes sum, square sum of each pixel is included.The provided format is HDF. The spatial resolution is 9 km and the statistical period is 1 day, also 8 days and 1 month statistics are available. The projection method is EQA. The generation unit is Global. The current version of the product is "Version 2".
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 Binned Bulk Sea surface temperature (1day,9 km)
EARTH SCIENCE>OCEANS>OCEAN TEMPERATURE
ADEOS-II
GLI
OCEAN TEMPERATURE

Environment
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 STA Map Snow grain size retrieved with 1640nm band (1month,1/12deg) is obtained from the GLI (Global-Imager) sensor onboard ADEOS-II and produced by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Global environment change has become a worldwide concern in recent years. In order to clarify these environmental changes, the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS-II, renamed "Midori II" after launch) has been developed for the purpose of monitoring the Earth environment using remote sensing technology from space. Midori II carries mission instruments that are particularly dedicated to clarify the water energy cycle and the carbon cycle, and is expected to be utilized for international climate change research programs. GLI an optical sensor that observes the reflected solar radiation from the Earth's surface, including land, oceans and clouds and/or infrared radiation with a multi-channel system for measuring the biological content. The SGLI has a swath of 1600 km. Snow grain size retrieved with 1640nm is using GLI channel 28 (1.64 Î¼m) independently to retrieve snow grain size at very top surface. Level 2 snowimpurities, grain size and surface temperature product (SNGI_p) is used as input data. The physical quantity is micro meter. This product is the representative values, which are estimated from level 3 binned products and projected onto map. The provided format is HDF. The spatial resolution is 1/12 degree and the statistical period is 1 month, also 16 days statistics is available. Map projection is EQR and PS. The generation unit is Global, North and South Hemisphere. The current version of the product is "Version 2".
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 STA Map Snow grain size retrieved with 1640nm band (1month,1/12deg)
EARTH SCIENCE>CRYOSPHERE
EARTH SCIENCE>TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE>SNOW/ICE
ADEOS-II
GLI
CRYOSPHERE
SNOW/ICE

Geoscientific Information
ADEOS OCTS L1A RTC VNR dataset is obtained from OCTS (Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner) sensor onboard ADEOS and produced by NASDA (National Space Development Agency of Japan). Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) is sun-synchronous quasi-recurrent orbiter launched on August 17, 1996, and carries OCTS (Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner) and AVNIR (Advanced Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer) sensor.The main objectives of ADEOS (MIDORI) is to contribute to elucidation of phenomena of the earth system through integrated observation of geophysical parameters using a number of sensors. ADEOS operation on orbit was given up on June 30, 1997, because the generated power was lost due to the accident of the blanket of the solar array paddle breaking. OCTS observes the amount of chlorophyll and various substances contained in the sea, sea surface temperature, cloud formation process, etc by receiving 12 bands of wavelengths from the visible light region to the thermal infrared region. The observation field of OCTS is about 1400km, and it is possible to scan in the north-south direction. Those sensors aim at collecting global data for mainly understanding the state of the ocean and its phenomena.This product is RTC (Real Time Coverage) visible and near Infrared band (VNR) data cut out into scenes from Level 0 data. RTC data have a coverage at EOC, but if tilt angle is changed, the data is divided into two scenes (products). This product also contains radiometric correction coefficients required for data correction (each band, each pixel) and geometric correction information. Furthermore, supplemental information, such as the telemetry of OCTS, quality information, the sun vector, scene information and others are included.The provided format is HDF4 format The Spatial resolution is 700 m.
ADEOS/OCTS L1A RTC Visible and near infrared
EARTH SCIENCE>SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING>VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS
EARTH SCIENCE>SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING>INFRARED WAVELENGTHS
SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING
VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS
INFRARED WAVELENGTHS

ADEOS-II/AMSR L3 Water Vapor (1day,0.25deg) dataset is obtained from the AMSR sensor onboard ADEOS-II and produced by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).The Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II (ADEOS-II) was launched on December 14, 2002 (Japanese Standard Time). The objective of ADEOS-II was to acquire data to contribute to international global climate change research, as well as for applications such as meteorology and fishery. ADEOS-II operation on orbit was given up on October 31 2003, because sufficient electric power was not available to maintain operation of the satellite.AMSR observes various physical contents concerning to water (H2O) by receiving weak microwaves naturally radiated from the Earth's surface and atmosphere and also regardless of day or night, the presence of clouds. Those sensors aim at collecting global data for mainly understanding the circulation of water and energy.Level 3 data inputs level 1B and level 2 data and projected to the map in accordance with the specified projection technique (Equi-Rectangular (EQR) or Polar Stereographic (PS)), and then averaged temporally and spatially. These statistical values are computed for observation data on ascending orbit and descending orbit respectively.This product includes daily mean Water Vapor (WV). PWI (water vapor index) is converted to total water vapor content (PWA, kg/m^2) using a look-up table, which is designed as the provability of PWA with AMSR retrievals is equivalent to that of PWA with radiosonde. The physical quantity unit is kg/m^2.The provided format is HDF4. The current version of the product is "Version 7". The statistical period is 1 day.The projection method is EQR. The generation unit is global.
ADEOS-II/AMSR L3 Water Vapor (1day,0.25deg)
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE>ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
AMSR
ATMOSPHERE
ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR

Environment
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 Binned Snow grain size retrieved with 1640nm band (16days,1/12deg) is obtained from the GLI (Global-Imager) sensor onboard ADEOS-II and produced by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Global environment change has become a worldwide concern in recent years. In order to clarify these environmental changes, the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS-II, renamed "Midori II" after launch) has been developed for the purpose of monitoring the Earth environment using remote sensing technology from space. Midori II carries mission instruments that are particularly dedicated to clarify the water energy cycle and the carbon cycle, and is expected to be utilized for international climate change research programs. GLI an optical sensor that observes the reflected solar radiation from the Earth's surface, including land, oceans and clouds and/or infrared radiation with a multi-channel system for measuring the biological content. The SGLI has an swath of 1600 km. Snow grain size retrieved with 1640nm is using GLI channel 28 (1.64 Î¼m) independently to retrieve snow grain size at very top surface. Level 2 snow impurities, grain size and surface temperature product (SNGI_p) is used as input data. The physical quantity is micro meter. This product includes sum, square sum, max, min of each pixel is included.The provided format is HDF. The spatial resolution is 1/12 degree and the statistical period is 16 days, also 1 month statistics is available. Map projection is EQA and PS. The generation unit is Global, North and South Hemisphere. The current version of the product is "Version 2".
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 Binned Snow grain size retrieved with 1640nm band (16days,1/12deg)
EARTH SCIENCE>CRYOSPHERE
EARTH SCIENCE>TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE>SNOW/ICE
CRYOSPHERE
SNOW/ICE

ADEOS-II/GLI L3 Binned Cloud Top Temperature of ice cloud by emission method (1month,1/4deg) is obtained from the GLI (Global-Imager) sensor onboard ADEOS-II and produced by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Global environment change has become a worldwide concern in recent years. In order to clarify these environmental changes, the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS-II, renamed "Midori II" after launch) has been developed for the purpose of monitoring the Earth environment using remote sensing technology from space. Midori II carries mission instruments that are particularly dedicated to clarify the water energy cycle and the carbon cycle, and is expected to be utilized for international climate change research programs. GLI an optical sensor that observes the reflected solar radiation from the Earth's surface, including land, oceans and clouds and/or infrared radiation with a multi-channel system for measuring the biological content. The SGLI has a swath of 1600 km. This product Cloud Top Temperature of ice cloud is which is retrieved from multi-channel radiance (channel 30, 35, 36) applying emission method. This product includes sum, square sum, max, min of each pixel is included.The provided format is HDF. The physical quantity unit is Kelvin. The spatial resolution is 1/4 degree and the statistical period is 1 month, also 16 days statistics is available. Map projection is EQR. The generation unit is global. The current version of the product is "Version 2".
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 Binned Cloud Top Temperature of ice cloud by emission method (1month,1/4deg)
EARTH SCIENCE>ATMOSPHERE>CLOUDS
CLOUDS