The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-2) is in current operation on
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) GCOM-W1 space craft, launched in
May 2012. Data are processed by Remote Sensing Systems. The satellite
completes an ascending and descending pass during local daytime and nighttime
hours respectively. Each daily file contains 7 daytime and 7 nighttime
maps of variables named as follows within the data
slot of amsr objects: timeDay,
SSTDay, LFwindDay (wind at 10m sensed in
the 10.7GHz band), MFwindDay (wind at 10m sensed at 18.7GHz),
vaporDay, cloudDay, and rainDay, along with
similarly-named items that end in Night.
See [1] for additional information on the instrument, how
to cite the data source in a paper, etc.
The bands are stored in raw form, to save storage. The accessor
function [[,amsr-method can provide these values in raw
form or in physical units; plot,amsr-method, and
summary,amsr-method work with physical units.
1. Information on the satellite, how to cite the data, etc. is provided at http://www.remss.com/missions/amsr/.
2. A simple interface for viewing and downloading data is at http://images.remss.com/amsr/amsr2_data_daily.html.
landsat-class for handling data from the Landsat-8 satellite.
Other things related to amsr data: [[<-,amsr-method,
composite,amsr-method,
download.amsr,
plot,amsr-method, read.amsr,
subset,amsr-method,
summary,amsr-method