The science data obtained by 2-μm Camera (IR2)
onboard the AKATSUKI (also known as Venus Climate Orbiter and PLANET-C) spacecraft
are provided on this page.
Instrument Overview
IR2 utilizes the atmospheric windows at wavelengths of 1.74, 2.26, and 2.32 μm;
the first two suffer only CO2 absorption,
while the last one contains a CO absorption band.
At these wavelengths the outgoing infrared radiation originates from the altitudes 35 -- 50 km.
Contents
Data
Level 1b product (VCO-V-IR2-2-EDR-V1.0) (pre peer review version) at DARTS
Level 2b product (VCO-V-IR2-3-CDR-V1.0) (pre peer review version) at DARTS
geometry information product (VCO-V-IR2-3-SEDR-V1.0) (pre peer review version) at DARTS
Level 3 product
Cloud Motion Vector product
Documents
SIS (Software Interface Specification) for IR2 Level 1b and Level 2b products
SIS (Software Interface Specification) for Level 1b and Level 2b products (common part for 4 cameras)
List of Observation Programs (for UVI, IR1, IR2, and LIR)
HTML,
PDF,
ASCII text
List of FITS header keywords (for UVI, IR1, IR2, and LIR)
HTML,
PDF,
ASCII text
Description of the image coordinate (for UVI, IR1, IR2, and LIR)
ASCII text
Level 3 Data Document
Cloud Motion Vector Document
Definition of Product Level
Level 1b (l1b)
raw data (count value in FITS format)
Level 2b (l2b)
calibrated data (physical value in FITS format)
geometry (geo, geo4)
geometry information (latitude, longitude, local time, phase angle, incidence angle, emission angle, azimuthal angle) at the center of each pixel (geo) and at the lower-left corner of each pixel (geo4).
Level 3 (l3, l3x)
calibrated, physical values at equally spaced longitude-latitude grid in NetCDF format, derived from l2b data (l3), and pointing corrected geometry information at the center of each pixel (l3x).
Cloud Motion Vector (CMV)
CMVs at equally spaced longitude-latitude grid in NetCDF format obtained by using l3 data.
File Naming Convention
Filename is in "CAM_DATE_TIME_KIND_LEVEL_VER.EXT" format.
CAM
Name of the camera: ir2 for IR2.
DATE
date in UTC when image taken at in "YYYYMMDD" format, where YYYY is four-digit year (2010 -- 20??), MM is two-digit month (01 -- 12), and DD is two-digit day (01 -- 31): e.g., 20151211 for 2015-12-11.
TIME
time in UTC when image taken at in "hhmmss" format, where hh is two-digit hour (00 -- 23), mm is two-digit minutes (00 -- 59), and ss is two-digit seconds (00 -- 59): e.g., 123704 for 12:37:04.
KIND
kind of filter or image type: 174 for 1.74 μm filter, 226 for 2.26 μm filter, 232 for 2.32 μm filter, 202 for 2.02 μm filter, 165 for 1.65 μm filter, and drk for dark image.
LEVEL
level of product: l1b, l2b, l3, l3x, geo, and geo4.
VER
version string: v10 for "version 1.0".
EXT
extension that represents file type: fit for FITS file, jpg for JPEG file, png for PNG file, lbl for PDS3 label file, and nc for NetCDF file.
When you publish your own work based on the AKATSUKI IR2 data, please refer to the following paper(s) or the data sets:
Satoh, T. M. Nakamura, M. Ueno, K. Uemizu, M. Suzuki, T. Imamura, Y. Kasaba, S. Yoshida, M. Kimata,
Development and in-flight calibration of IR2: 2-μm camera onboard Japan's Venus orbiter, Akatsuki,
Earth, Planets and Space, 68:74, doi:10.1186/s40623-016-0451-z, 2016.
URL
Murakami, S., T. Satoh, M. Yamada, A. Yamazaki, K. McGouldrick,
Y. Yamamoto, G. L. Hashimoto, VENUS CLIMATE ORBITER IR2 RAW DATA V1.0,
VCO-V-IR2-2-EDR-V1.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 2017.
Murakami, S., T. Satoh, K. McGouldrick, Y. Yamamoto, G. L. Hashimoto,
VENUS CLIMATE ORBITER IR2 CALIBRATED DATA V1.0, VCO-V-IR2-3-CDR-V1.0,
NASA Planetary Data System, 2017.
Murakami, S., M. Yamada, K. McGouldrick, Y. Yamamoto, G. L. Hashimoto,
VENUS CLIMATE ORBITER IR2 GEOMETRY INFORMATION V1.0,
VCO-V-IR2-3-SEDR-V1.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 2017.