WebGMS - MTSAT/GMS (HIMAWARI) data processing on WWW

Earthquake Reserach Institute &
Institute of Industrial Science, U-Tokyo

• [2010/07/13] MTSAT2R (HIMAWARI-7) has been in operation since July 2, 2010.
• [2010/04/26] Data request and quicklook service have been recovered.
• [2010/02/13] Data request and quicklook service is not available because of server maintenance.
• [2007/06/20] Land suraface water monitoring system has started.
• [2007/02/05] Forest fire monitoring system has started.
• [2007/11/24] MTSAT online geocoded data processing service has started.
• [2006/10/31] MTSAT level1b product quicklook service has started.
• [2006/10/17] WebGMS has started normal operation.

• 1km (Visible channel only)
• 4km (All channels)

• Visible and thermal infrared channels

• Acrive fire and thermal anomalies
• Land surface water anomalies

• Kei Oyoshi, Wataru Takeuchi and Masayuki Tamura, 2008. Land surface monitoring with Japanese geostationary satellite. 29th Asian conference on remote sensing (ACRS): Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2008 Nov. 12. (Paper 0.5MB | Presentation 4.1MB)
• Wataru Takeuchi, Yusuke Matsumura and Yoshifumi Yasuoka, 2008. Near-real time wildfire monitoring with MODIS, AVHRR and MTSAT. Seminar on hotspot detection algorithm, Sapporo, Japan, 2008 Apr. 16. (Presentation 11.0MB)
• Wataru Takeuchi and Yoshifumi Yasuoka, 2007. Precise geometric correction of MTSAT imagery. 28th Asian conference on remote sensing 2007 (ACRS): Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2007 Nov. 14. (Paper 0.5MB | Presentation 2.6MB)
• Yusuke Matsumura, Wataru Takeuchi and Yoshifumi Yasuoka, 2007. Evaluation of wildfire duration time over Asia using MTSAT imagery. 28th Asian conference on remote sensing 2007 (ACRS): Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2007 Nov. 14. (Paper 0.7MB | Presentation 2.4MB)
• Kei Oyoshi, Wataru Takeuchi and Yoshifumi Yasuoka, 2007. Evaluation of snow-cover maps over Northeastern Asia derived from AVHRR, MODIS and MTSAT Data. 28th Asian conference on remote sensing 2007 (ACRS): Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2007 Nov. 14. (Paper 2.9MB)
• Wataru Takeuchi, Toshihiro Nemoto, Takayuki Kaneko and Yoshifumi Yasuoka, 2007. Development of MTSAT data processing, distribution and visualization system on WWW. Internaional Remote Sensing Symposium (ISRS), Jeju, South Korea, 2007 Nov. 1. (Paper 2.3MB | Presentation 6.7MB)