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SMAP Data Access and Tools

NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) data products include information about soil moisture and freeze thaw state. Additional Level 4 value-added products are available. Data tools such as Vertex and Earthdata Search enable users to discover and download data.

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MWOW 6-Hourly Global Ocean Wind Level 3 Version 0.1 ASCAT, SCAT-3, SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER, KaRIn 2023-01-01 to 2027-08-31 0.1 ACTIVE netCDF-4 Wind Direction, Wind Speed
MWOW 6-Hourly Global Ocean Wind with Expanded Platform Inputs Level 3 Version 0.1 ASCAT, SCAT-3, SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER, KaRIn, SCATTEROMETERS 2023-01-01 to 2027-08-31 0.1 ACTIVE netCDF-4 Wind Direction, Wind Speed
MWOW 6-Hourly High Resolution Global Ocean Wind Level 3 Version 0.1 ASCAT, SCAT-3, SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER, KaRIn 2023-01-01 to 2027-08-31 0.1 ACTIVE netCDF-4 Wind Direction, Wind Speed
MWOW 6-Hourly High Resolution Global Ocean Wind with Expanded Platform Inputs Level 3 Version 0.1 ASCAT, SCAT-3, SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER, KaRIn, SCATTEROMETERS 2023-01-01 to 2027-08-31 0.1 ACTIVE netCDF-4 Wind Direction, Wind Speed
Near Real-time SMAP L1B Radiometer Half-Orbit Time-Ordered Brightness Temperatures V105 SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER 2025-06-26 to Present 105 ACTIVE HDF5 ANTENNA TEMPERATURE, Brightness Temperature
Near Real-time SMAP L1B Radiometer Half-Orbit Time-Ordered Brightness Temperatures V105 SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER 2025-06-26 to Present 105 ACTIVE HDF5 ANTENNA TEMPERATURE, Brightness Temperature
Near Real-time SMAP L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 36 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture V107 SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER 2025-06-26 to Present 107 ACTIVE HDF5 Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture
Near Real-time SMAP L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 36 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture V107 SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER 2025-06-26 to Present 107 ACTIVE HDF5 Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture
Parametrized Rain Impact Model for SMAP L2 V1.0 SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER 2015-03-31 to 2021-10-01 1.0 ACTIVE netCDF4 Salinity, Wind Speed, RAIN
Probabilistic Freeze-Thaw Record for the Northern Hemisphere, 2016-2020 SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER, AMSR2 2016-01-01 to 2020-12-31 1 COMPLETE COG Seasonally Frozen Ground, Seasonally Frozen Ground
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SMAP Data Tools

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HiTIDE Use HiTIDE to subset and download popular Level 2 (swath) datasets. Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Downloading
SOTO State of the Ocean (SOTO) is an interactive web-based tool that generates informative maps, animations, and plots that communicate and prove the discovery and analysis of the state of the oceans. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
Worldview Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events
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