AMSR Research Product Distribution Service
The AMSR Research Product Distribution Service provides research products from the AMSR series satellites free of charge.
User registration is required to obtain the products on this service. Please read the terms and conditions carefully and agree on them before the registration at "User Registration".
*This service has been renamed from "GCOM-W Research Product Distribution Service" to "AMSR Research Product Distribution Service."

Information

Mar. 24, 2025
Notice of Service Name Change

This service has been renamed from "GCOM-W Research Product Distribution Service" to "AMSR Research Product Distribution Service."

Service and Products

Research Product

AMSR series Research Products

AMSR Data Catalog For an overview of each product, please refer to theAMSR Data Catalog on the AMSR Series website.

Product Level Sensor
Atmosphere Total Precipitable Water over Land (PWL) AMSR2
Ocean 10GHz (High-resolution) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) *1 AMSR2, AMSR-E
Multi-band Sea Surface Temperature (SST) *2 AMSR2
All-weather Sea Surface Wind Speed (ASW) AMSR2
Cryosphere High-resolution Sea Ice Concentration (HSI) AMSR2
Detection of Thin Sea Ice (TSI) AMSR2
Sea Ice Motion Vector (SIM) AMSR2
Thin Ice Thickness (Thermal Ice Thickness)(TIT) AMSR2
Land Snow Depth (SND) *3 AMSR2, AMSR-E
Soil Moisture Content (SMC) *3 AMSR2, AMSR-E
Land Surface Temperature (LST) AMSR2, AMSR-E
Soil Moisture Content (SMC) and Vegetation Water Content (VWC) based on the Land Data Assimilation Methodology (LDA) AMSR2, AMSR-E
TB AMSR-E Brightness Temperature in Slow Rotaion Mode *4 AMSR-E
  1. 10GHz sea surface temperature is stored in the second layer of AMSR-E / AMSR2 standard products. Please download the standard products distributed at G-Portal for your use.
  2. Multi-frequency SSTs are stored in the third layers of AMSR2 standard products. Please download the standard products distributed at G-Portal for your use.
  3. The snow depth and soil moisture products are distributed as AMSR-E / AMSR2 standard products, but the latest version processed using the algorithm under development for AMSR3 is distributed as a research product.
  4. AMSR-E brightness temperature data in slow rotation mode are for researchers.

File Format

AMSR2 / AMSR-E research products are in compliance with the HDF5 format of the AMSR2 standard products. However, the sea ice motion vectors (SIM) are in an original format.

For the research products, the quality flag is not described in the format description of the standard products. Please refer to the "Product Summary" of each product in the AMSR Data Catalog.

Tools / Libraries / Sample Programs

Regarding tools, libraries, and sample programs to handle AMSR2 / AMSR-E research products, please refer to the "Resources" page of the AMSR series website.

Standard Product

地球観測衛星データ提供システム(G-Portal)

Please access Globe Portal System (G-Portal) if you would like to use AMSR series standard products.


Browse Images

  • AMSR Earth Environment Viewer

    This site provides global observation images and data by AMSR series.

  • JASMES
    JASMES for Water Cycle

    This site provides images of the global water cycle observed by AMSR, etc.

  • JAXA/EORC
    Tropical Cyclone Monitoring

    This site provides observation data of typhoons by AMSR, DPR, and GMI.