ADEOS-II Satellite Mission Summary

Identifieradeos-iiNamesAdvanced Earth Observing Satellite - IIADEOS-IIAliasesmidori-2 About identifiers

SeriesADEOSadeos

An earth observation satellite observing the changes in water on the earth, biological systems, and the ozone layer.

Full Name

Advanced Earth Observing Satellite - II
aka Midori-2

Mission Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

JAXA, CNES, NASA, NOAA

Launch Date

14 Dec 2002

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

25 Oct 2003

EO Portal Info

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

101 minutes

Orbit Sense

Descending

Orbit Inclination

98.6 deg

Orbit Altitude

803 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

10:30

Repeat Cycle

4 days

NORAD Catalog #

27597

International Designator

2002-056A

ADEOS Comms - Communications package for ADEOS adeos-ii_adeos-comms

AMSR - Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer adeos-ii_amsr

GLI - Global Imager adeos-ii_gli

ILAS-II - Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II adeos-ii_ilas-ii

POLDER-2 - POLarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances adeos-ii_polder-2

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