Hideaki Takenaka¹, Teruyuki Nakajima², Akiko Higurashi³, Makiko Hashimoto⁴, Miho Sekiguchi⁵, Takashi M. Nagao⁶, Atsushi Higuchi⁷, Ken Takeshi Murata⁸, Kazuya Muranaga⁸, Kazuhito Ichii⁹, Yuhei Yamamoto⁷, Hirofumi Hashimoto¹⁰, Weilie Wang¹¹ and Ramakrishna R Nemani¹⁰, (1)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Earth Observation Research Center (EORC), Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (4)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, (5)Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (6)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (7)Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, (8)NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (9)Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, (10)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (11)CSUMB & NASA/AMES, Seaside, United States