# JAXA

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/jaxa/  
**Website:** https://earth.jaxa.jp/en/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) provides public APIs and data services for satellite Earth observation data, including GCOM/ALOS satellite imagery, global precipitation mapping, greenhouse gas monitoring, and scientific mission data from Japanese space programs.

## Kin Score — 29.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 49.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 13.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **JAXA Earth API** — Provides access to over 100 Earth observation satellite datasets from JAXA missions including ALOS, GCOM-C, and GCOM-W. Delivers data in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format thr...
- **G-Portal Web API** — OGC-compliant web services for searching and accessing JAXA Earth observation satellite products from missions including GCOM-W (AMSR2), GCOM-C (SGLI), and GSMaP precipitation p...
- **GSMaP Global Rainfall Watch API** — Provides global satellite-based precipitation estimates through the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) product. Delivers near-real-time and archive rainfall rate ...
- **ALOS User Interface Gateway 2 (AUIG2)** — Online search and ordering system for ALOS and ALOS-2 synthetic aperture radar and optical observation data. Authorized users can search observation archives, review observation...
- **JAXA Himawari P-Tree Data Service** — Provides near-real-time and archive access to Himawari geostationary meteorological satellite imagery and derived products. Data accessible via FTP from the P-Tree (Public ftp/h...
- **JAXA CSW API** — Catalog Services for the Web - search satellite observation collections and granules
- **JAXA WCS API** — Web Coverage Service - retrieve raw coverage/raster data from satellite datasets
- **JAXA WMS API** — Web Map Service - retrieve map imagery from satellite datasets

## Agentic access (1)

- **Jaxa Agentic Access** — 3 operations

## Security (1)

- **Jaxa Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Space, Satellite, Earth Observation, Remote Sensing, Geospatial, Climate, Environment, Precipitation, Greenhouse Gas, Japan

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/jaxa/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.