AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L2B Half-Orbit 25 km EASE-Grid Surface Soil Moisture V001
The AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified Level-2B land product provides a long-term data record by combining AMSR-E and AMSR2 data. This data set includes surface soil moisture estimates derived from L1R brightness temperatures using the Normalized Polarization Difference algorithm (NPD) and the Single Channel Algorithm (SCA) along with ancillary information gridded to the 25 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid).
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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: | Platform(s): | GCOM-W1 | |
| Data Center(s): | NASA/MSFC/AMSR-E SIPS | Instrument(s): | AMSR2 |
| Version: | 1 | ||
- Title: AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L2B Half-Orbit 25 km EASE-Grid Surface Soil Moisture V001
- Version: 1
- Publisher: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://doi.org/10.5067/IKQ0G7ODMLC7, Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc.
Collection Information
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Purpose
Scientific Research -
DOI
10.5067/IKQ0G7ODMLC7
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Data Identification
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Processing Level
Level 2B
Derived geophysical variables
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Collection Progress
Planned
Related URLs
Other Descriptive Keywords
ISO Topic Categories
- ENVIRONMENT
- CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
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: 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
Acquisition Information
Temporal Information
Spatial Information
| Coverage Type | Zone Identifier | Geometry | Granule Representation |
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| HORIZONTAL | CARTESIAN | ORBIT |
| Coverage Type | Swath Width | Period | Inclination Angle | Number of Orbits | Start Circular Latitude | Granule Representation |
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| ORBITAL | 1450.0 | 98.88 | 98.15 | 0.5 | -90.0 | ORBIT |
Location Keywords
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Data Centers
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NASA NSIDC DAAC
ARCHIVER-
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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NASA NSIDC DAAC
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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NASA/MSFC/AMSR-E SIPS
PROCESSORThis data center does not have any addresses listed.
This data center does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
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NASA/MSFC/AMSR-E SIPS
ORIGINATORThis data center does not have any addresses listed.
This data center does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
Data Contacts
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Thomas Jackson
Technical ContactThomas Jackson
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BARC-West
Beltsville, MD 20705
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Steven Chan
Technical ContactSteven Chan
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4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
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Rajat Bindlish
Technical ContactRajat Bindlish
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8800 Greenbelt Rd.
Greenbelt, MD 20771
301 286 8753
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Eni Njoku
Technical ContactEni Njoku
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Pasadena, CA 91109
1 818 354 3693
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NSIDC Services
Technical ContactNSIDC Services
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CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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Thomas Jackson
Technical ContactThomas Jackson
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BARC-West
Beltsville, MD 20705
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Steven Chan
Technical ContactSteven Chan
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Pasadena, CA 91109
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Rajat Bindlish
Technical ContactRajat Bindlish
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8800 Greenbelt Rd.
Greenbelt, MD 20771
301 286 8753
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Eni Njoku
Technical ContactEni Njoku
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Pasadena, CA 91109
1 818 354 3693
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NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
User ServicesNASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
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Boulder, Colorado
This contact does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
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Archive And Distribution Information
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Format: HDF-EOS
Format Type: Native