AMSR2/GCOM-W1 surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km descending V001 is a Level 3 (gridded) data set. Its land surface parameters, surface soil moisture, land surface (skin) temperature, and vegetation water content, are derived from passive microwave remote sensing data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2), using the Land Parameter Retrieval Model (LPRM). There are two files per day, one ascending (daytime) and one descending (nighttime), archived as two different products. This document is for the nighttime product. The data set covers the period from May 2012, when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Global Change Observation Mission-1st Water GCOM-W1 satellite was launched, to the present. The LPRM is based on a forward radiative transfer model to retrieve surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth. The land surface temperature is derived separately from the AMSR2's Ka-band (36.5 GHz). A unique feature of this method is that it can be applied at any microwave frequency, making it very suitable to exploit all the available passive microwave data from various satellites. Input data are from the AMSR2 spatial-resolution-matched brightness temperatures (L1SGRTBR) product, nighttime passes, as processed using LPRM (i.e., LPRM/AMSR2/GCOM-W1 Level 2 product, LPRM_AMSR2_SOILM2_V001).
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Spatial Extent: | Bounding Rectangle: N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 |
Data Format(s): | Distribution: netCDF |
Temporal Extent: | Platform(s): | GCOM-W1 | |
Data Center(s): | NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC | Instrument(s): | AMSR2 |
Version: | 001 |
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Title: Multisensor historical climatology of satellite-derived global land surface moisture
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Author(s): Owe, M., R. de Jeu, and T. Holmes
Series: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 113
Issue: F01002
Pages: 17 pp.
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000769
Title: Global soil moisture patterns observed by space borne microwave radiometers and scatterometers
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Author(s): De Jeu, R.A.M., W. Wagner, T.R.H. Holmes, A.J. Dolman, N.C. van de Giesen, and J. Friesen
Series: Surveys in Geophysics
Volume: 29
Pages: 399-420
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-008-9044-0
Title: Land surface temperature from Ka band (37 GHz) passive microwave observations
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Author(s): Holmes, T.R.H., R.A.M. De Jeu, M. Owe, and A.J. Dolman
Series: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 114
Issue: D04113
Pages: 15 pp.
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010257
Title: Error estimates for near-real-time satellite soil moisture as derived from the Land Parameter Retrieval Model
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Author(s): Parinussa, R.M., A.G.C.A. Meesters, Y.Y. Liu, W. Dorigo, W. Wagner, and R.A.M. de Jeu
Series: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Pages: 779 - 783
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2114872
Title: A preliminary study toward consistent soil moisture from AMSR2
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Author(s): Parinussa, R.M., T.R.H. Holmes, N. Wanders, W.A. Dorigo, and R.A.M. de Jeu
Series: Journal of Hydrometeorology
Volume: 16
Pages: 932-947
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0200.1
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GCOM-W | No campaigns listed. | No dates provided. |
Coverage Type | Zone Identifier | Geometry | Granule Representation |
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HORIZONTAL | CARTESIAN | CARTESIAN |
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Format: netCDF
Format Type: Native
Media: Online Archive
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