1. JAXA Agency Report ~ Update of JAXA’s organization & Overview of GPM/DPR Mission Operation System ~ Atsushi Kawai Mission Operation System Office (MOSS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) WGISS 29 @ Bonn, Germany 17-21 May, 2010

2. 1 JAXA’s organization chart Space Applications Mission Directorate PRESIDENT / VICE PRESIDENT / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Head Quaters Space Transportation Mission Directorate Human Space Systems and Utilization Mission Directorate Aerospace Research and Development Directorate Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) Aviation Program Group (APG) Lunar and Planetary Exploration Program Group Development a nd operation of Satellites and Systems, and r esearch and di stribution of Sa tellite data

3. 2 WGISS 29 @ Bonn, Germany 17-21 May, 2010 Update of JAXA’s organization Space Applications Mission Directorate Program Management and Integration Department Safety and Mission Assurance Office Space Cooperation Office for Asia Pacific Region Space Applications International Cooperation for Space Applications Satellite Systems Development Satellite Applications and Promotion Center (SAPC) Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) Mission Operation System Office (MOSS) Space Applications Program Systems Engineering Office Project Teams (GCOM, GOSAT, GPM/DPR, QZSS, EarthCARE/CPR, ALOS-2) EOC GS system Dev. Group Satellite Operat ion Tech. Group Merged two groups and Establish ed new office for the integration of total GS systems & Mission oper ations at Apr. 1, 2010

4. 3 Present Status of EOSatellites/Sensors in orbit WGISS 29 @ Bonn, Germany 17-21 May, 2010 TRMM/PR (12 years, Nov. 1997~) Aqua/AMSR-E (8 years, May 2002~) ALOS (4 years, Jan. 2006~) GOSAT (1 year, Jan. 2009~) Solar Paddle Deployment Lift off H-IIA 15 GOSAT and 7 Satellites Separation of GOSAT and 2 nd Stage

5. 4 WGISS 29 @ Bonn, Germany 17-21 May, 2010 GPM/DPR (JFY2013) –US-Japan Joint Mission, Follow-on of TRMM, DPR in development Earth CARE/CPR (JFY2013) –Europe-Japan Joint Mission, CPR in development GCOM-W1, C1 (JFY2011,13, respectively) –Follow-on of ADEOS, ADEOS-II, in development ALOS-2, 3 –Follow-on of JERS-1, ALOS, in research and develop ment Satellites/Sensors under research and development

6. 5 WGISS 29 @ Bonn, Germany 17-21 May, 2010 Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) GPM is the follow-on augm ented mission of TRMM mi ssion  To improve accuracy of long and short-term weather fore casts (and meteorology, climatology)  To improve water resource management in river control a nd irrigation systems (and hydrology, agrometeorology) Core Satellite TRMM EraGPM Era Core Satellite Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) Microwave radiometer (GMI) Precipitation with higher accuracy Discrimination between rain and snow 8 Satellites in the Constellation Microwave Radiometer 3 hours Global precipitation Satellite Constellation (launch in 2013) (launch around 2013)

7. 6 Concept of GPM/DPR GS System JMA International Flood Alert Network (IFNet) Asian Operational Users Research Users NASA/PPSPartner MWR L1c MWR L1b L1b/L1c (GMI and MWRs) 3hr- Global Rain Map DPR L0 Precipitation Product Public Users Science Team Cal/Val Team MWR L1b JAXA/EORC@Tsukuba [Major Functions] 1. Data Processing (for Standard Products) 2. DPR Management (HK monitor/analysis, DPR operation planning) 3. Data Archive (Standard Products, Ancillary etc.) 4. Data Distribution (for Agencies, common users) WGISS 29 @ Bonn, Germany 17-21 May, 2010

8. 7 Overview of GPM/DPR GS System NASA/PPS GPM EORC Information System Data Service System (GCOM/GPM/EarthCARE) GPM Data Processing System (DPR, DPR/GMI, Map, NRT, TRMM V8, Statistic processing) GPM Data Analysis System DPR APID sorted data, Orbit data, Ancillary GMI L1-L3, DPR/GMI comb(TBD), MWsensor L1 DPR command reques t PRF table, OBSW Standard &NRT Products, Catalog, Brows e JMA (GANAL) Standard & NRT Products Catalog, Browse General Researchers (PIs) Products MWsensor L1 DPR L1(NRT), JAXA standard product ICHARM/IDI DPR L2 （ NRT ）, DPR/GMI comb(NRT), Precipitation Map(NRT) Asia Operational Agency (TBD) GPM Partner(TBD) TBD NASA/MOC command request APID sorted data Constellation satellite data provider MWsensor L1(NRT) MWsensor L1 （ TB D ） L1 ATBD Calibration parameter L2-L3 processing software HK &Cal operation monitoring report Products GCOM EIS GANAL,AMeDAS AMSR2 L1 Research Products Receipt of comm and request

9. 8 WGISS 29 @ Bonn, Germany 17-21 May, 2010 Shared GS system with EarthCARE/CPR and Global Data Distribution System toward Global Data Distribution System

10. 9 WGISS 29 @ Bonn, Germany 17-21 May, 2010 Status of GPM/DPR GS System Development Schedule Mar. 2010GS-PDR (done) Aug. 2010NASA-JAXA Interface Peer Review Dec. 2010GS-CDR Jan. 2012~Mission Operation Test and End-to-End Test Jul. 2013Core Satellite Launch Relationship with WGISS GDaWG (http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/GPM/DataWG/gdawg/index.html) Information exchange about data management, catalog & meta and technical issu es include constellation satellites agencies Inventory Search GPM/DPR GS team hopes WGISS/WADC/CWIC define “Search criteria” Large Amount Data Management / Handling Standard Product v.s. Single parameter file “LEGO” strategy by Dr. T. Nakajima, Univ. Tokyo

11. 10 Global Rainfall Map (GSMaP) in Near Real Time WGISS 29 @ Bonn, Germany 17-21 May, 2010 Hourly global rainfall maps are a vailable four hours after observat ion. This system is based on rainfall algorithm developed by the GSM aP (Global Satellite Mapping of P recipitation) project. Free Data Download: See http://sharaku.eorc.jaxa.jp/GSMaP/documents.htm or ask by e-mail: trmm_real@jaxa.jp