N: 89.24 S: -89.24 E: 180 W: -180
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Description
This gridded Level-3 land surface product (AE_Land3) includes daily measurements of surface soil moisture and vegetation/roughness water content interpretive information, as well as brightness temperatures and quality control variables. Ancillary data include time, geolocation, and quality assessment.
Version Description
Product Summary
Platforms
Instruments
Spatial Extent
Spatial Resolution
25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers
Spatial Reference System(s)
NSIDC EASE-Grid Global (EPSG:3410)
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2002-06-19 to 2011-10-03
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C3235723259-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
3366
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Citation
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Njoku, E. (2004). AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parameters, & QC EASE-Grids, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_LAND3.002 Date Accessed: 2026-08-01
Njoku, E. (2004). AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parameters, & QC EASE-Grids, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_LAND3.002 Date Accessed: 2026-08-01
Njoku, Eni. “AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parameters, &Amp;Amp; QC EASE-Grids, Version 2.” NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center, 2004, https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_LAND3.002. Date Accessed: 2026-08-01
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Documents
USER'S GUIDE
ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)
PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT
GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
Publications Citing This Dataset
Filters
| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| A fused soil moisture product integrating linear fusion method and error characteristics approach | Singh, Anuj, Dhanya, C.T., Saharia, M. | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture | |
| Soil Texture, Soil Moisture, and Sentinel-1 Backscattering: Towards the | Stanyer, Claire, Seco-Rizo, Irene, Atzberger, Clement, Marti-Cardona, Belen | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| The application of satellite sensors, current state of utilization, and sources of remote sensing dataset in hydrology for water resource management | Abegeja, Daniel | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture | |
| Global L-band equivalent AI-based vegetation optical depth dataset | Skulovich, Olya, Li, Xiaojun, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre, Gentine, Pierre | Brightness Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content, Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery | |
| Intercomparison of very high-resolution surface soil moisture products over Catalonia (Spain) | Ouaadi, Nadia, Jarlan, Lionel, Le Page, Michel, Zribi, Mehrez, Paolini, Giovani, Ait Hssaine, Bouchra, Escorihuela, Maria Jose, Fanise, Pascal, Merlin, Olivier, Baghdadi, Nicolas, Boone, Aaron | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Sentinel-1 Backscatter and Interferometric Coherence for Soil Moisture Retrieval in Winter Wheat Fields Within a Semiarid South-Mediterranean Climate: Machine Learning Versus Semiempirical Models | Ezzahar, Jamal, Chehbouni, Abdelghani, Ouaadi, Nadia, Madiafi, Mohammed, Said, Khabba, Er-Raki, Salah, Laamrani, Ahmed, Chakir, Adnane, Chabaane, Zohra Lili, Zribi, Mehrez | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| A Long-term Consistent Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing-based Soil Moisture Dataset | Skulovich, Olya, Gentine, Pierre | Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Brightness Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content, Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery | |
| The Nile Waters: Weighed from Space | Awange, Joseph | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Monitoring water storage decline over the Middle East | Khaki, Mehdi, Hoteit, Ibrahim | Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Modelling the Nile's Waters: Assimilation | Awange, Joseph | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Satellite Remote Sensing in Hydrological Data Assimilation | Khaki, Mehdi | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Estimation and evaluation of high spatial resolution surface soil moisture using multi-sensor multi-resolution approach | Koley, Swadhina, Jeganathan, C. | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content, Surface Soil Moisture | |
| Altimetry-derived surface water data assimilation over the Nile Basin | Khaki, Mehdi, Awange, Joseph | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Calibrating land hydrological models and enhancing their forecasting skills using an ensemble Kalman filter with one-step-ahead smoothing | Khaki, Mehdi, Ait-El-Fquih, Boujemaa, Hoteit, Ibrahim | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Monitoring of wheat crops using the backscattering coefficient and the interferometric coherence derived from Sentinel-1 in semi-arid areas | Ouaadi, Nadia, Jarlan, Lionel, Ezzahar, Jamal, Zribi, Mehrez, Khabba, Said, Bouras, Elhoussaine, Bousbih, Safa, Frison, Pierre-Louis | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Multi-mission satellite remote sensing data for improving land hydrological models via data assimilation | Khaki, M., Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., Han, S. C. | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Assessing data assimilation frameworks for using multi-mission satellite products in a hydrological context | Khaki, M., Hoteit, I., Kuhn, M., Forootan, E., Awange, J. | Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Development of soil moisture profiles through coupled microwavethermal infrared observations in the southeastern United States | Mishra, Vikalp, Cruise, James F., Hain, Christopher R., Mecikalski, John R., Anderson, Martha C. | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| The Effect of Vegetation on the Remotely Sensed Soil Thermal Inertia and a Two-Source Normalized Soil Thermal Inertia Model for Vegetated Surfaces | Zhang, Renhua, Tian, Jing, Mi, Sujuan, Su, Hongbo, He, Honglin, Li, Zhaoliang, Liu, Kai | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Emerging and potential future applications of satellite-based soil moisture products | Tebbs, E., Gerard, F., Petrie, A., De Witte, E. | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content | |
| Multi-objective calibration of a hydrologic model using spatially distributed remotely sensed/in-situ soil moisture | Rajib, Mohammad Adnan, Merwade, Venkatesh, Yu, Zhiqiang | Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content |
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