The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) element of NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth Observing Systems (LANCE) generates a suite of Rain and Ocean products from Level-1R resampled brightness temperature data provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). On June 9, the AMSR Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) reconfigured LANCE AMSR2 processing to use JAXA’s new near-real time (NRT) Level-1R product as input rather than the standard Level-1R product. While the NRT data stream experiences occasional data loss, latency is generally much lower than for the standard data, meaning that AMSR2 products are now consistently generated within three hours of observation, as required by LANCE.
