ADEOS-II/AMSR L1A

The objective of ADEOS-II was to acquire data to contribute to international global climate change research, as well as for applications such as meteorology and fishery. ADEOS-II operation on orbit was given up on October 31 2003, because sufficient electric power was not available to maintain operation of the satellite.AMSR observes various physical contents concerning to water (H2O) by receiving weak microwaves naturally radiated from the Earth's surface and atmosphere and also regardless of day or night, the presence of clouds.

Those sensors aim at collecting global data for mainly understanding the circulation of water and energy.The Level 1A product is extracted data in range of a half orbit between the South Pole and North Pole from level 0 data and stores the value of observed microwave radiation from the earth surface.This dataset includes digital count value (raw data) with the missing values filled with dummy data. Quality information and Land/Ocean flag are appended.