Discovery and Access

The WGISS Connected Assets System Level Team is committed to enabling discovery and access of EO satellite data.

WGISS Connected Assets System integrates the CEOS Agencies’ data collections which are connected via the supported WGISS standards – OGC CSW 2.0.2 and CEOS OpenSearch Best Practices – which allow independent clients to search and access their unrestricted data.

Discovery and Access of satellite data is possible using:

• the International Directory Network (IDN) – The CEOS IDN Master Directory assists researchers by providing free, online access to information on scientific datasets (metadata)  in the Earth sciences, including geoscience, hydrospheric science, biospheric science, satellite remote sensing, and atmospheric science. This metadata describes data held by university departments, government agencies, multinational organizations, and other organizations all over the world.
• the WGISS Connected Data Access (WCDA) – contains details about the CEOS Agencies’ data collections that are connected via the supported WGISS standards.
• the CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog (CWIC) – The CWIC Project provides the world’s satellite Earth observation data providers with a way to make their data collections and individual granules searchable using common standards.
• the Federated Earth Observation Gateway (FedEO) – FedEO (Federated Earth Observation missions access) provides a unique entry point to a growing number of scientific catalogues and services for, but not limited to, EO European and Canadian missions.
• CEOS OpenSearch – CEOS OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results using a common set of CEOS interoperability best practices in order to allow for standardized and harmonized access to metadata and data of CEOS agencies, including CWIC and FedEO communities.

 For more information and technical help, please send email to Access-SysTeam-Help@wgiss.ceos.org

JAXA GCOM-C (Global Change Observation Mission – Climate “Shikisai”) satellite was launched on Dec. 23^rd, 2017 to conduct long-term and continuous global observations in order to elucidate the global warming mechanisms related to fluctuations in radiation budget and/or carbon cycles etc..

The onboard sensor SGLI (Second Generation Global Imager) can observe 19 bands of radiations from near-ultraviolet to thermal infrared region (380 nm-12 μm), which yield various physical properties related to cloud, water, snow, ice, aerosol, sea, land, vegetation, biomass, chlorophyll a, photosynthesis.  The spatial resolution and swath of SGLI are 250m and greater than 1,000 km respectively and the whole globe can be scanned approximately in every two days.

SGLI can observe cloud, aerosols, vegetation, etc. and its data are expected to contribute .to predictions for fishing grounds, yellow sands, red tides, etc..

The released products can be downloaded via JAXA G-Portal (https://gportal.jaxa.jp/).

GCOM-C IDN dataset description records click here.

* Contact Point: JAXA G-portal help desk: z-gportal-support@ml.jaxa.jp

ESA has announced that the JERS-1 Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Level-1 products are now available to download. According to the ESA announcement:

“These data are free of charge and access is granted immediately to all users worldwide after fast registration.

These data represent the result of a systematic reprocessing project of the entire ESA JERS-1 data holdings. The JERS-1 SAR data are available in CEOS format as Precision Image (PRI) and Single Look Complex Image (SLC)products. Whereas, the JERS-1 OPS data are available in GeoTIFF format and represent System Corrected products (SYC) from the VNIR optical sensor… [ read more ]. 

Contact Point: Mirko.Albani@esa.int