THE CEOS DATABASE : MISSION, INSTRUMENTS AND MEASUREMENTS

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - GCOM-W -

Full Name

Global Change Observation Mission-Water
aka Shizuku

Status

Operational (extended)

Mission Agencies

JAXA

Launch Date

18 May 2012

Mission Links

mission site | data access portal

EOL Date

Dec 2023

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

38337 (TLE)

International Designator

2012-025A

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

98 minutes

Orbit Sense

Ascending

Orbit Inclination

98.2 deg

Orbit Altitude

700 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

13:30

Repeat Cycle

16 days

Objectives and Applications

Understanding of the water cycle mechanism.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	AMSR2
	Cloud particle properties and profile	AMSR2
	Liquid water and precipitation rate	AMSR2
Land	Soil moisture	AMSR2
Ocean	Ocean surface winds	AMSR2
	Surface temperature (ocean)	AMSR2
Snow & Ice	Snow cover, edge and depth	AMSR2
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	AMSR2

Mission Instruments

AMSR2 - Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2

OpenSearch Datasets

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