News and Events

• Latest news and upcoming events
• Academic Meeting
• IJIS newsletter "Kyokko"
• Extracts from JAXA press releases
• Updates of this web site

Latest news and upcoming events

• This web site will be closed from the evening of December 20th to 22nd due to maintenance. [Dec 19, 2007]
• Updates of the Arctic Sea-Ice Monitor will be temporarily stopped on November 16th and 17th. [Nov 15, 2007]
• This web site reopened on July 30th. [Jul 31, 2007]
• We would like to inform you that this web site will be closed from July 27th to 29th due to an electrical power outage. [Jul 26, 2007]
• The server maintenance of the IJIS Web Site was completed on June 25th. [Jun 28, 2007]

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Academic meeting

• IGARSS 2008, Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A. (Link to the Official site )
• GCCA-7, Fairbanks, Alaska U.S.A. [Feb 19-20, 2007]
• IARC-JAXA Workshop 2006, Fairbanks, Alaska U.S.A. [Mar 6-8, 2006]
• IGARSS 2004 Exhibition, Anchorage, Alaska U.S.A. [Sep 20-24, 2004]

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IJIS newsletter "Kyokko"

We put out a newsletter quarterly, which covers a range of topics related to the IJIS and arctic researches. Contents and the PDF file of the latest issue are presented below. "Kyokko" means aurora borealis, incidentally.

No. 7 [December, 2007]

Topics Researchers' Highlights About IJIS Exhibits PDF, 1.4 MB (English, A4 size) Exhibit 1: Fairbanks -Pansharpened image with 2.5 meters resolution by PRISM - PDF, 1.3MB (A4 size) Exhibit 2: Wild fire in East Siberia PDF, 1.3MB (A4 size)

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Extracts from JAXA press releases

• Total area of sea ice in Arctic Ocean smallest since observations started - Much faster pace of ice melting than forecasted - [August 16, 2007 (JST)]
• Advanced Land Observing Satellite "Daichi" (ALOS): Start of Operations Phase and Data Provision to the Public [October 23, 2006 (JST)]

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Updates of this web site

• • [Mar 14, 2008] IJIS User's Guide in English and in Japanese are revised (ver. 2.10). It can be read only by IJIS Users.
  • [Mar 5, 2008] IJIS User's Guide in English and in Japanese are revised (ver. 2.09). It can be read only by IJIS Users.
  • [Feb 1, 2008] "Latest images" updating
  • [Jan 23, 2008] "Latest images" updating
  • [Jan 22, 2008] Showing the link to "IGARSS 2008".
  • [Dec 11, 2007] "Wild Fire Monitoring" is installed.
  • [Dec 11, 2007] Release of Newsletter "Kyokko" No.7 in PDF file.
  • Update log

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