Observing Water on the Earth from Space
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) Series

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News
Sep. 20, 2022
Aqua/AMSR-E and GCOM-W1/AMSR2 Land Research Products are newly released.

The following land research products are now available.

Snow Depth (SND): AMSR2 ver 1.0, AMSR-E ver 1.0
Soil Moisture Content (SMC): AMSR2 ver 1.0, AMSR-E ver 1.0
Land Surface Temperature (LST): AMSR-E ver 1.0 (AMSR2 LST produts are already available)

For details of each product, please refer to the overview of each product in the AMSR Data Catalog.

News
Jul. 28, 2022
GCOM-W1/AMSR2 Version 4.410.410 products of SST Released.

JAXA has started to provide version 4.410.410 products of sea surface temperature (SST) of GCOM-W1/AMSR2 on Jul. 27th, 2022. Please refer to the Release Note of the Product information/operation for the details of algorithm improvements.

The Precipitation (PRC) Ver.3, which was scheduled to be provided on the same day, has been postponed. We will notify you when PRC Ver.3 is provided.

We apologize for any inconvenience

News
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.

Operation
May 12, 2022
The service of "All-weather sea surface wind speed (Windsat)" website has closed. Thank you for using it.

"All-weather sea surface wind speed (Windsat)" provided by "JASMES for Water Cycle" website will continue to be provided.

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