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- [Source: JAXA, http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/JERS-1/en/index.html ]
JERS-1 is an Earth Observation Satellite to cover the global land area for national land survey, agriculture, forestry, and fishery, environmental protection, disaster protection, and coastal monitoring, etc. focusing on observation around the world and resource exploitation. It was launched into a solar-synchronous sub-recurrent orbit at an altitude of 568 km with a recurrent period of 44 days by the H-I launch vehicle on February 11, 1992 from National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) Tanegashima Space Center, and has been continuing to observe and collect data with a mission data recorder by the high performance Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Optical Sensor (OPS). SAR is an active sensor which transmits microwave and observes characteristics, inequality, slope in the surface of the earth, etc. without being influenced by the weather day and night due to scattered waves from the Earth. OPS can observe in seven bands from the visible region to short wave infrared band and is capable of stereoscopic observation by forward look of 15.3 (J from nadir in near infrared band and highly is usable for identifying stones, rocks, and minerals. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: JERS-1 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: JERS Short_Name: JERS-1 Long_Name: Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1 End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: FUYO-1 End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: OPS Short_Name: SAR End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: 580 km Orbit_Inclination: 98 deg Period: 96 min Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-10-10 Online_Resource: http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/JERS-1/en/index.html Sample_Image: http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/jers1/img/photo_jers1.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1992-02-11 Launch_Site: Tanegashima Island, Japan Design_Life: 2 Years Primary_Sponsor: JAPAN/JAXA End_Group End_Group
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