NSIDC-0196
SMEX02 AMSR-E Level 3 Daily Gridded Brightness Temperatures, Iowa
Eni Njoku
SMEX02 AMSR-E Level 3 Daily Gridded Brightness Temperatures, Iowa
2004-04-09
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0196.html
Investigator
Eni
G.
Njoku
njoku@lor.jpl.nasa.gov
1 818 354-3693
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
M/S 300-233
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena
CA
91109-8099
USA
Technical Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199 x
1 303 492-2468 x
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
EARTH SCIENCE
Spectral/Engineering
Microwave
Brightness Temperature
AMSR-E
EASE-Grid
Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid
Gridded
Gridded Data
Passive Microwave
Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures
Passive Microwave Data
SMEX
AMSR-E
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
AQUA
Earth Observing System, AQUA
SATELLITES
2002-06-01
2002-08-31
39
45
-98
-89
CONTINENT
NORTH AMERICA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SMEX02
Soil Moisture Experiments in 2002
English
NSIDC_DAAC
NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Center Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
NSIDC
National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org
Data Center Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
FTP
3.2 MB
ASCII Text
FTP
3.2 MB
Binary
This data set contains Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) level 3 daily gridded brightness temperatures, spatially subsetted to the state of Iowa, USA. The study period covers 1 June 2002 through 31 August 2002. The level 3 data were derived from AMSR-E level 2A source data. Each daily file contains data from the 6.9, 10.7, 18.7, 36.5, and 89 GHz channels. Data are provided in 83 binary files, and are available via FTP from NSIDC. This work was done as part of the Soil Moisture Experiment 2002 (SMEX02).
These data were collected as part of a validation study for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E). AMSR-E is a mission instrument launched aboard NASA's Aqua Satellite on 04 May 2002. AMSR-E validation studies linked to SMEX are designed to evaluate the accuracy of AMSR-E soil moisture data. Specific validation objectives include assessing and refining soil moisture algorithm performance; verifying soil moisture estimation accuracy; investigating the effects of vegetation, surface temperature, topography, and soil texture on soil moisture accuracy; and determining the regions that are useful for AMSR-E soil moisture measurements.
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CEOS IDN DIF
9.7
2004-04-09
2012-07-12
corrected dist. formats