Results of the MTPE Education NRA

--Shinichi Sobue (sobue@eos.nasa.gov), NASDA Liaison to Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project
--Mathew Schwaller (matt@ulabsgi.gsfc.nasa.gov), NASA ESDIS Project, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) is pleased to inform you of Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) on-line services available via the World Wide Web (WWW). In August, 1996, at the Tanegashima Space Center in the southern part of Japan, NASDA successfully launched this new Earth observation satellite, which was developed through international collaboration. NASDA has begun operating ADEOS in its standard observation mode, and the NASDA Earth Observation Center (NASDA/EOC) is working with NASA and other sensor providers [Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) of France, and the Environment Agency (EA) and Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) of Japan] to receive, process, archive, and deliver ADEOS standard product data and related information. All ADEOS raw and Level 0 data as well as Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer (AVNIR) and Ocean Color Temperature Scanner (OCTS) standard products are archived at the NASDA/EOC and each sensor's data are also archived by the sensor provider.

In collaboration with ADEOS sensor providers, NASDA has established a virtual on-line ADEOS data and information system to promote ADEOS data utilization for global change study over the Internet via the WWW.

Now, Earth scientists have world wide access to ADEOS data and related information with the following URLs:

1. NASDA home page for ADEOS: http://yyy.tksc.nasda.go.jp/Home/This/This-e/adeos_e.html

2. NASDA on-line information service pages for ADEOS
   • ADEOS first images. (NASDA worked with NASA, CNES, MITI, and EA to provide the first ADEOS image from each sensor) http://www.eoc.nasda.go.jp/guide/guide/satellite/satdata/adeos_first_index_e.htm

   • Browse service [OCTS, NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT), and Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)]

     http://www.eoc.nasda.go.jp/guide/www/ index_e.html

     http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/seawifs_scripts/ octs_browse.pl

   • Intensive Local Area Coverage (LAC) (OCTS Level 3 Chlorophyll-a, SST) http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/ADEOS/ILAC/RtcL3p.html

3. ADEOS sensor provider home pages
   • EA: http://www-ilas.nies.go.jp

   • MITI: http://img.ersdac.or.jp

   • NASA/JPL NSCAT: http://www.jpl.nasa. gov/winds

   • NASA/GSFC TOMS: http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa. gov

   • NASDA/TEDA (Technical Data Acquisition): http://akebono.tksc.nasda.go.jp

   NASDA is prototyping a Web Gateway to its Earth Observation data and Information System (EOIS), which will provide access to ADEOS data catalogue services under the Global Observation Information Network (GOIN) initiative. NASDA will demonstrate the first prototype Web Gateway access in June 1997 at the GOIN workshop in Boulder.

   In addition, NASDA is working together with NASA, NOAA, ESA, and the European community to develop an on-line OCTS Intensive Local Area Coverage (ILAC) system to provide OCTS data via the Internet.