Global Change Observation Mission-W1

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
May, 2012 to May, 2017

GCOM is a JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) observation program consisting of a constellation of two medium-sized spacecraft with the provisional names of and. GCOM is seen as a follow-up program to ADEOS.-II (launch Dec. 14, 2002) with the overall objective to contribute to global change research through long-term (> 10 years) sustained observations with corresponding data sets.

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http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gcom/index_e.html

Instrument	Datasets
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer -2	4

Also known as :

• missionID 459 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission GCOM-W (ceos lexicon)
• resource Global_Change_Observation_Mission (dbpedia lexicon)
• Platform GCOM-W1 (podaac lexicon)