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Late 1990s

JAXA EO Satellite Projects
2003 (JAXA Established)

2000s

Climate Change/Water

Earth Observation

GPM/DPR

ADEOS
ADEOS-II

TRMM/PR

GCOM-C

GCOM-W
GOSAT

Aqua/
AMSR-E

EarthCARE/
CPR

Launched on February 28, 2014 (JST) GCOM-W
Follow-On
Global Warming
GOSAT-2

Land Use
Disaster
Monitoring

ALOS
Late 1980s

Early 1990s

MOS-1

JERS-1

ALOS-2

To Be Launched on May 24, 2014 (JST)

Next Gene.
(Optical)

Demonstration
ISS/JEM
1
Figure 1. JAXA Earth Observation Program.

(3) Monitoring the natural resources (agriculture, ocean
monitoring, and resources), (4) Technology development for the future earth remote sensing (satellite and
sensor). Definitions of
all these missions and
their prioritizing were
ALOS-2 hAS FOur mAjOr
reconsidered during the
ObjectiveS: (1) DiSASter
ALOS mission as to be
mOnitOring,
very keen to the human
(2) envirOnmentAL
lives and the Earth conmOnitOring FOr
ditions. Figure 2 shows
SuStAinAbLe eArth in
the artistic view of the
FOreStry, cryOSphere,
ALOS-2 satellite and
its expected high-level
AnD SeA ice,
products, i.e., the global
(3) mOnitOring the
forest/non-forest map
nAturAL reSOurceS,
[2], the surface deforma(4) technOLOgy
tion map, and the polar
DeveLOpment FOr the
region mosaic, all of
Future eArth
which are derived from
remOte SenSing.
PALSAR.
A L O S -2 s c ie nc e
project was redesigned
based on the SAR part of the ALOS science project
[3] considering the actual outcomes from the ALOS/
PALSAR and the enhanced performance of the PALSAR-2, i.e., higher resolution in the Spotlight and Strip
mode, dual polarization of the ScanSAR data. The science project consists of three parts, i.e., 1) Calibration
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table 1. eo MiSSion objectiveS and the SenSorS.
Satellite

SenSor and MeaSureMent

MOS-1

Marine Observation Satellite with MESSR
1987~1996
(50 m, 4-band multi spectral), VTIR (Visible
and Thermal Infrared), and MSR (Microwave
Scanning Radiometer)

operation

JERS-1

Japan Earth Resources Satellite highresolution land observation with L-band
SAR+OPS (stereo + infrared)

1992~1998

Pi-SAR-L

Airborne L-band polarimetric SAR

1996~2012

ADEOS

Advanced Earth Observing Satellite with
national and international sensors onboard
for ocean land and atmospheric monitoring

1996~1997

TRMM

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission with
rain radar

1997~

AMSR-E

Advanced micro wave radiometer onboard
the Aqua

2002~2012

ADEOS-II

Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II

2002~2003

ALOS

Advanced Land Observing Satellite with
PRISM, AVNIR-2, and PALSAR-2

2006~2011

GOSAT

Greenhouse gas emission satellite

2009~

Pi-SAR-L2

Airborne L-band polarimetric and
interferometric SAR

2012~

GCOM-W1

Global Change Observation Mission Water

2012~

GPM

Global Precipitation Measurement

Feb. 28,
2014~

ALOS-2

Advanced Land Observation Satellite -2
carrying the L-band SAR

May 24,
2014~

GCOM-C1

Global Change Observation Mission Climate

2017~

EarthCARE

Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation
Explorer

2017~

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