The SMAP Radar Twice-Daily SAR and SIR-Enhanced Scatterometer EASE-Grid 2.0 Radar Backscatter, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set contains twice-daily synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and enhanced-resolution scatterometer radar backscatter derived from SMAP radar data from 13 April 2015 to 5 July 2015. Data are available on the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Temperate, and Mid-Latitude (sub-set of Global) EASE-Grid 2.0 projections and as either 25 km or 3.125 km resolution grids. This new product uses the drop-in-the bucket gridding (GRD) algorithm and Scatterometer Image Reconstruction (SIR) algorithm to process the individual swath-based data from the input data sets into twice-daily images, producing SAR images (high-resolution), slice and footprint images (both lower-resolution), respectively.
Data Announcement
New data set release: SMAP Radar Twice-Daily SAR and SIR-Enhanced Scatterometer EASE-Grid 2.0 Radar Backscatter, Version 1
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2023