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- [Source: NASA Science Missions Directorate: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/missions/smap ]
[SMAP was launched on 2015-01-31]
The Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) mission has been recommended by the NRC Earth Science Decadal Survey Panel for launch in 2015. SMAP will use a combined radiometer and high-resolution radar to measure surface soil moisture and freeze-thaw state, providing for scientific advances and societal benefits. Direct measurements of soil moisture and freeze/thaw state are needed to improve our understanding of regional water cycles, ecosystem productivity, and processes that link the water, energy, and carbon cycles. Soil moisture information at high resolution enables improvements in weather forecasts, flood and drought forecasts, and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office (IPO) has developed a tri-agency set of requirements for the next generation of polar-orbiting operational environmental satellites. A novel approach combining radar-radiometer and L-band mapping of global soil moisture will allow SMAP to far exceed the NPOESS soil moisture threshold (minimum performance) requirements for sensing depth and spatial resolution. With "fast-track" development, it is possible that SMAP could provide critical gap-filling soil moisture measurements for NPOESS, which were lost when the Conical Microwave Imager/Sounder was cancelled from the first NPOESS platform. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: SMAP Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: NASA Decadal Survey Short_Name: SMAP Long_Name: Soil Moisture Active and Passive Observatory End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER Short_Name: SMAP L-BAND RADAR End_Group Creation_Date: 2009-09-17 Online_Resource: http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/missions/smap Online_Resource: http://decadal.gsfc.nasa.gov/smap.html Online_Resource: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/earth-science/decadal-surveys Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2015-01-31 Launch_Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA End_Group End_Group
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| Abstract from DBPedia | SMAP was a Japanese boy band, composed of Masahiro Nakai, Takuya Kimura, Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, and Shingo Katori. The group was created in 1988 by music producer Johnny Kitagawa, founder of Johnny & Associates, originally as a six-piece with Katsuyuki Mori, until his departure from the band in 1996. The name stands for "Sports Music Assemble People". After making their debut in 1991, the group took the Japanese entertainment industry by storm, becoming one of the most successful boy bands in Asia. The group is often referred to as a "national treasure" and a "fortune and property of the country" in Japan. SMAP was regarded as an iconic group in Japan, after achieving an unprecedented level of success in numerous genres in the entertainment industry, including music, television, film, radio, and theater, as a group and individually. SMAP was credited for changing the Japanese entertainment and music industry, in terms of prolonging longevity of boy bands and broadening careers by creating new opportunities for bands that followed. After starting out as a typical boy band, with a fan base predominantly female teens, they gradually transformed into a band with a wider audience, expanding their fan base to preteens, male adults, and even the elderly, after their success as actors and television personalities. SMAP released 55 singles, all of which reached the top 10 in the charts, 22 consecutive number one singles, and 33 number one singles in total. The band has had 24 top 10 albums and 14 number one albums. "The One and Only Flower in the World", released in 2003, is the best selling single in the 21st century and the third best selling single in Japanese history and has become the most recognized song in Japan, as it appears in text books used in school and children are taught to learn the song at a young age. Other best selling singles by the group include, "Beyond the Night Sky", "Lion Heart", "Shake", "Aoi Inazuma", which also have become the most popular songs in Japan. Throughout their career, the band has sold over 38.5 million records in Japan alone. In April 1996, the group launched their weekly variety show, SMAP×SMAP, which quickly gained high ratings and became one of the most famous television shows in Japan. The distinct format of the program has received widespread critical praise. The show ranked No. 1 in the annual household share ratings in 1996, 1997, 1999 – 2002, 2006, and 2016 making it the most watched television show in Japan. The episode aired in January 2002 is currently ranked No. 7 for the most watched Japanese variety show in history, with 34.2 million viewers. It is the eighth longest-running prime-time television program in Japan, as of 2016. SMAP officially disbanded on December 31, 2016.SMAP（スマップ）は、日本の元男性アイドルグループ。1988年にジャニーズJr.6名から結成され、1991年にCDデビュー。2016年12月31日をもって解散した。活動は28年間に及び「国民的グループ」と称された。芸能事務所はジャニーズ事務所。レコード会社はビクターエンタテインメント。 グループ名は、当時事務所社長だったジャニー喜多川の命名。「Sports Music Assemble People」の略であり、「スポーツと音楽の融合」、「スポーツと音楽をするために集められた人々」という意味が込められている。ただし、諸星和己によるとそれは後付けであり、実際はGENJIの弟分として、GENJIメンバーの頭文字から取ったものであると主張している。山本淳一も、ジャニー喜多川に山本のあだ名が「バンジー」ではなく「パンジー」だと勘違いされていたためにSMAPとなったと述べており、本人から確認の電話がかかってきた旨を述べている。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/SMAP) |
