AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids, Version 3
Data set id:
AE_Land
DOI: 10.5067/3JUPY6PAHHCP
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
* Soil moisture is now estimated using two different approaches - the Normalized Polarization Difference algorithm (NPD) and the Single Channel Algorithm (SCA) - to be consistent with the AU_Land soil moisture product. As a result, output parameters are now the same as AU_Land.
* File format changed to HDF-EOS5.
See https://nsidc.org/data/amsre/version-history
* File format changed to HDF-EOS5.
See https://nsidc.org/data/amsre/version-history
Overview
This data set contains gridded estimates of soil moisture in the top 1 cm of soil, averaged over the AMSR-E retrieval footprint. Soil moisture is estimated from AMSR-E/Aqua L2A brightness temperature (Tb) measurements using two different approaches: the Normalized Polarization Difference algorithm (NPD) and the Single Channel Algorithm (SCA).
Ancillary data are also provided to help interpret the soil moisture observations, including vegetation roughness, observation counts for various surface conditions, and QA flags.
Parameter(s):
SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENTVEGETATION WATER CONTENT
Platform(s):
Aqua
Sensor(s):
AMSR-E
Data Format(s):
HDF-EOS5
Temporal Coverage:
1 June 2002 to 4 October 2011
Temporal Resolution:
- 50 minute
Spatial Resolution:
- 25 km
- 25 km
Spatial Reference System(s):
NSIDC EASE-Grid Global
EPSG:3410
Spatial Coverage:
N:
89.24
S:
-89.24
E:
180
W:
-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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