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Resolution for the Irregular Values in Deficit Area of Level 1B Products of AMSR/AMSR-E

October 24 2005
JAXA/EOC

JAXA/EOC announces that the cause and affects of irregular values in deficit area of level 1B products of AMSR/AMSR-E have been determined, and the resolution for this problem was completed on October 21st, 2005. JAXA/EOC will start re-processing of those affected products and re-distribute to users who ordered with the new products.

The following is the detail of cause and affects of the problem and re-distribution schedule.

Program failure in AMSR/AMSR-E level 1 processing

Irregular values in deficit areas and upper/lower 10 scan lines of those areas. Please refer to the list of specific data items which contain irregular values.

Data ItemsProducts
Brightness Temperature (Brightness_Temperature)Level 1B
Antenna Temperature Coefficient (Antenna_Temperature_Coef)Level 1A/1B
Data Quality (Data_Quality)Level 1A/1B

JAXA/EOC will complete until the end of January 2006.