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Description

This data set contains Level-2 global soil moisture estimates derived from the NASA Aquarius passive microwave radiometer on the Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC-D).

Version Description

Changes in the Version 4 Aquarius Soil Moisture data include: use of the most recent version (Version 4) of Aquarius Brightness Temperatures as input.

Product Summary

Platforms
SAC-D
Instruments
AQUARIUS_RADIOMETER
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location
GLOBAL LAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
ORBIT
Temporal Extent
2011-08-25 to 2015-06-07
Temporal Resolution
98 Minute
Concept ID
C2770315790-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
2
Published
Science Keywords
Brightness Temperature ,
Soil Moisture/Water Content

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Bindlish, R., & Jackson, T. (2015). Aquarius L2 Swath Single Orbit Soil Moisture, Version 4 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AQUARIUS/AQ2_SM.004 Date Accessed: 2026-07-29

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A comparative study of the SMAP passive soil moisture product with existing satellite-based soil moisture products Burgin, Mariko S., Colliander, Andreas, Njoku, Eni G., Chan, Steven K., Cabot, Francois, Kerr, Yann H., Bindlish, Rajat, Jackson, Thomas J., Entekhabi, Dara, Yueh, Simon H. Brightness Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Moisture/Water Content
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