Short Name:

AE_Land

AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids V002

This Level-2B land surface product (AE_Land) includes daily measurements of surface soil moisture, vegetation/roughness water content interpretive information, and quality control variables. Ancillary data include time, geolocation, and quality assessment.

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Spatial Extent:

Bounding Rectangle:

N: 89.24 S: -89.24 E: 180.0 W: -180.0

Data Format(s):

Distribution: HDF-EOS

Temporal Extent:

2002-06-18 to 2011-10-03

Platform(s):

AQUA

Data Center(s):

NASA/MSFC/AMSR-E SIPS

Instrument(s):

AMSR-E

Version:

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Title: AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids V002
Version: 2
Publisher: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

DOI

10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_LAND.002

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_LAND.002, Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc.

Purpose
Scientific Research
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Processing Level

Level 2B

Derived geophysical variables

Quality

Collection Progress
Complete

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ISO Topic Categories

ENVIRONMENT

Additional Attributes

Name: AscendingDescendingFlg STRING Description: Satellite Direction
Name: EndingPolygonNumber INT Description: The index number for the last polygon associated with the nominal pass number in the granule
Name: NominalPassIndex INT Description: The nominal pass index number for the pass that best describes the spatial location of the granule, where the pass is either the ascending or descending portion of an orbit
Name: OrbitalPeriod FLOAT Description: Orbital period in decimal minutes
Name: OrbitInclination FLOAT Description: Angle between the orbit plane and the Earth’s equatorial plane
Name: PercentLandData INT Description: Percentage of data points in the half-orbit data file that are done = (number of land points/total number of points)*100 (computed using an ocean mask).
Name: PercentRetrievals INT Description: Percentage of data points over land where retrievals are done = (number of retrieval points/total number of land points)*100 (computed using a classification mask for mountains, forest, etc.).
Name: PercentRetrievalsWithinBounds INT Description: Percentage of land data points where retrievals are done, whose retrievals are within bounds = (number of within-bounds retrieval points/number of retrieval points)*100.
Name: StartingPolygonNumber INT Description: The index number for the first polygon associated with the nominal pass number in the granule.
Name: identifier_product_doi STRING Description: Digital object identifier that uniquely identifies this data product
Name: identifier_product_doi_authority STRING Description: URL of the digital object identifier resolving authority

Coverage Type	Zone Identifier	Geometry	Granule Representation
HORIZONTAL		CARTESIAN	ORBIT

Coverage Type	Swath Width	Period	Inclination Angle	Number of Orbits	Start Circular Latitude	Granule Representation
ORBITAL	1450.0	98.88	98.15	0.5	-90.0	ORBIT

Location Keywords

- Geographic Region
- Global

NASA NSIDC DAAC
ARCHIVER
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
  CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

Email
Archiving Data Center
https://nsidc.org/daac

Home Page
NASA NSIDC DAAC
DISTRIBUTOR
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
  CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

Email
Archiving Data Center
https://nsidc.org/daac

Home Page
NASA/MSFC/AMSR-E SIPS
PROCESSOR
This data center does not have any addresses listed.
This data center does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
Originating Data Center
https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR/

Home Page
NASA/MSFC/AMSR-E SIPS
ORIGINATOR
This data center does not have any addresses listed.
This data center does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
Originating Data Center
https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR/

Home Page

NSIDC Services
Technical Contact

NSIDC Services
- CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

1 303 492 2468

Email
Eni Njoku
Technical Contact

Eni Njoku
- Pasadena, CA 91109
1 818 354 3693

Email
Eni Njoku
Technical Contact

Eni Njoku
- Pasadena, CA 91109
1 818 354 3693

Email
NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
User Services

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
- Boulder, Colorado
This contact does not have any contact mechanisms listed.

Metadata Dates

Creation	2004-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Last Revision	2021-04-28T00:00:00.000Z

File Distribution Information

Format: HDF-EOS

Format Type: Native

Format Description: HTTPS 0.61 MB

There is no direct distribution information for this collection.

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NASA NSIDC DAAC

NASA NSIDC DAAC

NASA/MSFC/AMSR-E SIPS

NASA/MSFC/AMSR-E SIPS

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NSIDC Services

NSIDC Services

Eni Njoku

Eni Njoku

Eni Njoku

Eni Njoku

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

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