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Description

This Level-2 (L2) soil moisture product provides estimates of global land surface conditions retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) active radar during 6:00 a.m. descending half-orbit passes, as well as ancillary data such as surface temperature and vegetation water content. Input backscatter data used to derive soil moisture are resampled to an Earth-fixed, global, cylindrical 3 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0).

Product Summary

Platforms
SMAP
Instruments
SMAP L-BAND RADAR
Spatial Extent

N: 85.044 S: -85.044 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
3 Kilometers x 3 Kilometers
Geographic Region
GLOBAL LAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2015-04-13 to 2015-07-07
Concept ID
C2812935277-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1173
Processing Level
2
Science Keywords
SIGMA NAUGHT ,
Soil Moisture/Water Content

Citation

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Kim, S., Van Zyl, J., Dunbar, R., Njoku, E., Johnson, J., Moghaddam, M., & Tsang, L. (2016). SMAP L2 Radar Half-Orbit 3 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 3 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/J8SGO1E0Y9XZ Date Accessed: 2025-12-14

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