You need to register as a user to download products from G-Portal. Please read and accept the following terms and proceed to the next step:
JAXA Site Policy is applied to the matter which is not specified in this Terms of Use. Please read carefully and make sure you accept this Terms of Use before using G-Portal. In order to use G-Portal, the user must agree to this Terms of Use. You can accept the Terms by clicking to agree to this Terms of Use, where this option is made available to the user by JAXA; or by actually using the services. In the latter case, the user understands and agrees that JAXA will treat the user's use of G-Portal as acceptance of the Terms of Use from that point onwards.
1. User Registration
You need to create a user account to use G-Portal. Your user account and password will serve as your login information.
The items required for G-Portal user registration are: a username, a valid e-mail address, the name of a user's affiliation, country or region of a user, and a user's purpose of use.
For security reason, G-Portal requires you to use a valid e-mail address that identifies your educational or company affiliation (i.e., @jaxa.jp, @XX.edu, @companyname.com or @XX.org). If you use any e-mail address like Gmail, Yahoo, or any other free mail, you may not be able to complete your registration, or may not be able to receive e-mails from G-Portal.
2. Privacy Policy
The Privacy Policy of G-Portal to handle personal information used for G-Portal user registration is in accordance with the Code and other laws and regulations regarding personal information including EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and JAXA's "Privacy Policy". For details, refer to "Consent form for handling personal information based on GDPR" and "JAXA Privacy Policy". JAXA will not use personal information for any purposes, except for the following cases which relates to G-Portal:
•to perform statistical analyses of user access to G-Portal
•to request user participation in surveys so as to improve G-Portal service
•to respond to user inquiries
JAXA may outsource various parts of G-Portal service to a third party. The parts that may be outsourced include system administration, user management, and help desk operations. The third party will not use personal information for purposes other than to perform the part of G-Portal for which it was outsourced.
3. Account and Password Management
A user is entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the user's account and password. Users agree that the user is entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under the user's account, and JAXA is not responsible for any loss or damage caused by such activities including unauthorized use of user account or password by any third party.
4. Termination
If a user conducts any use in violation of this Terms of Use or JAXA Site Policy/Terms of Use, is determined to have used G-Portal in any other inappropriate manner, or overloads the system by acquiring a large amount of data in a short period of time such as web scraping, JAXA may temporarily suspend the user's account and may suspend the user's access to G-Portal. In addition, if a user is determined to have maliciously caused above-mentioned events, JAXA may cancel the user's account.
5. Modifications
JAXA reserves the right to modify any part or all of G-Portal including this Terms of Use with or without notice at any time in the future.
Modifications will be posted at G-Portal's site. It is the responsibility of the user to remain informed of any modifications at all times, as the user is bound by the latest version of the Terms of Use.
6. Limitation on Data Order
Due to network constraints or other limitations, the amount of data to be downloaded by a user per one order is limited for fair allocation of limited resources.
7. Condition concerning of G-Portal data
(1)
The user is entitled to use G-Portal data free of charge without any restrictions (including commercial use) except for the condition about acknowledgement of data credit as stipulated in Article 7.(2).
(2) Acknowledgement of Data Credit
The user shall indicate proper credit as defined in the attached TABLE, when the user publishes analyzed results from G-Portal data.
When the user publishes value added data products generated by G-Portal data, the user shall indicate the credit of the original G-Portal data.
Please refer to the following example for indication of the credit of the G-Portal data.
i.e. “PR data by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.”
For value added data products, please indicate the credit of the original G-Portal data.
i.e. “Original data for this value added data product was provided by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.”
(3) Joint Research agreement/contract
Terms and Conditions of any joint research agreement/contract with JAXA regarding to the use of G-Portal and G-Portal data supersede this Terms of Use. If you are using G-Portal data under a joint research agreement/contract, please follow terms and condition stated in such agreement/contract.
(4) Quotation of DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
JAXA has assigned the DOI numbers to standard products provided at G-Portal since FY2022. (Except for part of products including near real-time products) If you use the product for your report or academic journal etc., please quote the DOI number of such product in accordance with the following webpage.
https://earth.jaxa.jp/doi/en/
8. Disclaimer/Limitation on Liability
JAXA does not represent or warrant that the use of G-Portal is safe or that the contents of G-Portal are free of any harmful components. The data and information included in or available through G-Portal may include inaccuracies or errors. JAXA does not represent or warrant that the data and information provided by G-Portal, the use or the results of the use of G-Portal data will be correct, accurate, timely, or otherwise reliable.
JAXA provides G-Portal "as is" without warranty of any kind, and hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to G-Portal, makes no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of G-Portal for any purpose.
JAXA is not reliable for any damages or loss arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of G-Portal, with the delay or inability to use G-Portal, the provision of or failure to provide G-Portal, G-Portal data or any information, products and related materials obtained through G-Portal, or otherwise arising out of or in any way connected with the use or the results of the use of G-Portal data or any information, products or any related materials obtained through G-Portal.
JAXA may make change to the data and information provided by G-Portal at any time. JAXA reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, G-Portal (or any part thereof) with or without notice.
The user agrees that JAXA shall not be liable to the user or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of G-Portal.
9. Cooperation for submission of results
JAXA is collecting results (papers, theses, reports, etc.) using G-Portal data. If you have any results using G-Portal data, please mail/e-mail a copy of the result to G-Portal Support Desk (Contact Information written at the end of the Terms of Use). We appreciate your cooperation very much.
10. Contact Information
If you have any questions about G-Portal, please contact G-Portal Support Desk.
Address: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba Space Center, 2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8505 Japan
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Data | Data Credit |
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GPM (GSMaP) | JAXA |
GPM (Other GPM Products) | The NASA/JAXA GPM project and the other GPM Partners |
TRMM (PR, TMI, COMB, VIRS) | JAXA, NASA |
ALOS (Catalogue only, AVNIR-2, PRISM, PALSAR) | AVNIR-2 and PRISM:JAXA, PALSAR:JAXA METI |
ALOS-2 (Catalogue only, PALSAR-2) | JAXA |
CIRC | JAXA |
MODIS | NASA |
MOS-1 (MESSR, VTIR, MSR) | JAXA |
MOS-1b (MESSR, VTIR, MSR) | JAXA |
JERS-1 (VNIR, SWIR, SAR) | VNIR and SWIR:JAXA, SAR:JAXA METI |
ADEOS (AVNIR, OCTS) | JAXA |
GCOM-W(AMSR2) | JAXA |
ADEOS-II (GLI, AMSR) | JAXA |
Aqua (AMSR-E) | JAXA, NASA |
SLATS | JAXA |