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SMAP/Sentinel-1 L2 v003

Domain: Soils

Variables: Soil moisture

Spatial Resolution: 3 kilometer

Temporal Frequency: 30 seconds

Temporal Coverage: 2015 - Present

Spatial Extent: 60 degrees South - 60 degrees North

Source: NSIDC

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Description:

This Level-2 (L2) soil moisture product provides estimates of land surface conditions retrieved by both the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radiometer during 6:00 a.m. descending and 6:00 p.m. ascending half-orbit passes and the Sentinel-1A and -1B radar. SMAP L-band brightness temperatures and Copernicus Sentinel-1 C-band backscatter coefficients are used to derive soil moisture data, which are then resampled to an Earth-fixed, cylindrical 3 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0).

Citation:

Das, N., D. Entekhabi, R. S. Dunbar, S. Kim, S. Yueh, A. Colliander, P. E. O’Neill, T. Jackson, T. Jagdhuber, F. Chen, W. T. Crow, J. Walker, A. Berg, D. Bosch, T. Caldwell, and M. Cosh, 2020, SMAP/Sentinel-1 L2 Radiometer/Radar 30-Second Scene 3 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 3. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, accessed [YYYY-MM-DD], https://doi.org/10.5067/ASB0EQO2LYJV