CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- ADEOS-II
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Full Name
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Advanced Earth Observing Satellite - II
aka Midori-2
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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JAXA , CNES , NASA, NOAA
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Launch Date
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14 Dec 2002
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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25 Oct 2003
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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27597 (TLE)
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International Designator
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2002-056A
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Orbit Type
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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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101 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Descending
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Orbit Inclination
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98.6 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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803 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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10:30
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Repeat Cycle
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4 days
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Objectives and Applications
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An earth observation satellite observing the changes in water on the earth, biological systems, and the ozone layer.
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Mission Measurements
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| Category | Parameter | Instrument(s) |
| Atmosphere | Aerosols | GLI, ILAS-II, POLDER-2 |
| Atmospheric Humidity Fields | AMSR, ILAS-II, POLDER-2 |
| Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature | GLI |
| Cloud particle properties and profile | AMSR, GLI |
| Liquid water and precipitation rate | AMSR |
| Ozone | ILAS-II |
| Radiation budget | GLI |
| Trace gases (excluding ozone) | ILAS-II |
| Atmospheric Temperature Fields | ILAS-II |
| Land | Albedo and reflectance | POLDER-2 |
| Soil moisture | AMSR |
| Vegetation | GLI, POLDER-2 |
| Multi-purpose imagery (land) | POLDER-2 |
| Ocean | Ocean colour/biology | GLI |
| Ocean surface winds | AMSR, SeaWinds |
| Surface temperature (ocean) | AMSR |
| Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) | GLI |
| Snow & Ice | Snow cover, edge and depth | AMSR, GLI |
| Sea ice cover, edge and thickness | AMSR, GLI |
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 198  )
ADEOS-II/AMSR L1A
ADEOS-II/AMSR L2 Amount of Precipitation
ADEOS-II/AMSR L2 Cloud Liquid Water
ADEOS-II/AMSR L2 Ice Concentration
ADEOS-II/AMSR L2 Sea Surface Temperature
ADEOS-II/AMSR L2 Sea Surface Wind
ADEOS-II/AMSR L2 Snow Water Equivalent
ADEOS-II/AMSR L2 Soil Moisture
ADEOS-II/AMSR L2 Water Vapor
ADEOS-II/AMSR L3 10.65GHz-H Mean for Brightness Temperature (1day,0.25deg)
Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 190 results: browser , table )
ADEOS-II/GLI L2 Cloud Optical Thickness of ice cloud by emission method
ADEOS-II/AMSR L3 Soil Moisture (1day,0.25deg)
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 STA Map Bulk Sea surface temperature (all data averaged) (1day,9km)
ADEOS-II/AMSR L3 89.0GHz-V Mean for Brightness Temperature (1month,0.25deg)
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 Binned Cloud Effective Particle Radius of ice cloud by emission method (16days,1/4de...
ADEOS-II/GLI L2 Snow Grain and Impurities
ADEOS-II/AMSR L3 6GHz-H Mean for Brightness Temperature (1day,0.25deg)
ADEOS-II/AMSR L3 Ice Concentration (1month,0.25deg)
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 STA Map Attenuation coefficient at 490nm (1day,9km)
ADEOS-II/GLI L3 Binned Cloud Effective Particle Radius of ice cloud by emission method (1month,1/4de...
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