AE_Land3
AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parameters, & QC EASE-Grids
Njoku, E. G.
AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parameters, & QC EASE-Grids
2004-01-01updated 2008 for Version 2
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
2
http://nsidc.org/data/ae_land3.html
Investigator
Eni
G.
Njoku
njoku@lor.jpl.nasa.gov
1 818 354-3693
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
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Pasadena
CA
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USA
Technical Contact
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User Services
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
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EARTH SCIENCE
Biosphere
Vegetation
Plant Characteristics
Vegetation Water Content
EARTH SCIENCE
Land Surface
Soils
Soil Moisture/Water Content
EARTH SCIENCE
Spectral/Engineering
Microwave
Brightness Temperature
EARTH SCIENCE
Spectral/Engineering
Microwave
Microwave Imagery
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
AE_Land3
AMSR-E
Aqua
BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES
DAAC
EASE-Grid
EOSDIS
EOS PM-1
Hydrology
Imagery
land surface temperatures
NASA
NSIDC
Passive Microwave Radiation
Radiance
Remote Sensing
Soil Water Content
Tbs
Vegetation Status
Vegetation Water Content
AMSR-E
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
AQUA
Earth Observing System, AQUA
2002-06-18
in work
-89.24
89.24
-180
180
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
GLOBAL
25 km
25 km
1 day
EOS
Earth Observing System
Each HDF-EOS file contains core metadata with QA metadata flags that are set by the Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) prior to delivery to NSIDC. A separate metadata file in XML format is also delivered to NSIDC with the HDF-EOS file; it contains the same information as the core metadata. Three levels of quality assessment (QA) are conducted with the AMSR-E Level 2 and 3 products: automatic, operational, and science QA. If a product does not fail QA, it is ready to be used for higher-level processing, browse generation, active science QA, archive, and distribution. If a granule fails QA, SIPS does not send the granule to NSIDC until it is reprocessed. Level-3 products that fail QA are never delivered to NSIDC (Conway 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
60 MB
HDF-EOS
Conway, D. 2002. Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - EOS Quality Assurance Plan. Huntsville, AL: Global Hydrology and Climate Center.
Njoku, Eni G, T. Chan, W. Crosson, and A. Limaye. 2004. Evaluation of the AMSR-E Data Calibration Over Land. Italian Journal of Remote Sensing 29 (4): 19 - 37.
Njoku, Eni G., T. L. Jackson, V. Lakshmi, T. Chan, and S.V. Nghiem. 2003. Soil Moisture Retrieval from AMSR-E. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41 (2): 215-229. Njoku, Eni G, T. Chan, W. Crosson, and A. Limaye. 2004. Evaluation of the AMSR-E Data Calibration Over Land. Italian Journal of Remote Sensing. 30/31: 19-37.
Njoku, Eni G. and T. K. Chan, 2005. Vegetation and Surface Roughness Effects on AMSR-E Land Observations. Remote Sensing of Environment (in press). Njoku, Eni G. 1999. AMSR Land Surface Parameters. Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document, Version 3.0. Pasadena, CA, USA: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles. Soil moisture and other land surface variables are key variables in understanding land surface hydrology and in modeling ecosystems, weather, and climate.
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. Input brightness temperature data, corresponding to a 56 km mean spatial resolution, are resampled to a global cylindrical 25 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) cell spacing. Data are stored in HDF-EOS format, and are available from 19 June 2002 to the present via FTP.
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2004-01-01
2013-04-02
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