AMSR-E/Aqua Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures  View Catalog Page Entry ID
NSIDC-0301
Summary
The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA EOS Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of the Earth. NSIDC produces AMSR-E gridded brightness temperature data by interpolating AMSR-E data (6.9 GHz, 10.7 GHz, 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz, 36.5 GHz, and 89.0 GHz) to the output grids from swath space using an inverse-distance squared method. AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (AE_L2A) input source data are used to create the gridded brightness temperature data.
These data are provided in three EASE-Grid projections (north and south Lambert azimuthal and global cylindrical) at 25 km resolution. Spatial coverage is global, data are daily, coverage begins 19 June 2002, and processing is ongoing.
Data are provided via FTP as they become available. Brightness temperature data (in tenths of kelvins) are two-byte unsigned integers and time files are two-byte signed integers.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 90°
S: -90°
E: 180°
W: -180°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Knowles, Ken
Dataset Title: AMSR-E/Aqua daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures
Dataset Release Date: 2006-12-08
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Data Presentation Form: Digital media
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0301.html
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2002-06-19
Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution: 25 km
Longitude Resolution: 25 km
Temporal Resolution: Daily
Location Keywords
- Geographic Region Global
- Geographic Region Northern Hemisphere
- Geographic Region Southern Hemisphere
Science Keywords
- Spectral/Engineering Microwave Brightness Temperature
Ancillary Keywords
- AMSR-E
- Brightness Temperature
- cylindrical
- Ease
- EASE-Grid
- Global
- Gridded Data
- inverse-distance squared
- Lambert azimuthal
- Northern Hemisphere
- Passive Microwave
- Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures
- Remote Sensing
- Southern Hemisphere
- Spatially Resampled Brightness Temperatures
- Swath
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Platform
- AQUA Earth Observing System, AQUA
Instrument
- AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
Project
- EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data Information System
Quality
Extensive quality control procedures are followed in the production of the AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (AE_L2A) source data. See the Quality Assessment section of the AE_L2A documentation for more information. The gridding procedure assumes that source data brightness temperatures are legitimate, and performs no filtering of input data based on quality flags.
Data Set Progress
IN WORK
Originating Center
NSIDC_DAAC
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Set ID: NSIDC-0301
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Set ID: NSIDC-0300
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC DAAC User Services
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 27 MB per day, uncompressed, north
Distribution Format: binary
Fees: none
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 27 MB per day, uncompressed, south
Distribution Format: binary
Fees: none
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 42 MB per day, uncompressed, global
Distribution Format: binary
Fees: none
Personnel
Kenneth W. Knowles
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Matthew H. Savoie
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: savoie@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Richard Armstrong
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: +1 (303)-492-6199
Fax: +1 (303)-492-2468
Email: rlax@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: Colorado
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Mary J. Brodzik
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: brodzik@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
NSIDC USER SERVICES
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
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Reference
Ashcroft, P. and F. Wentz. 2000. Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for the AMSR Level-2A Algorithm, Revised 03 November. Santa Rosa, CA, USA: Remote Sensing Systems.
Brodzik, M. J. and K. W. Knowles. 2002. 'EASE-Grid: a versatile set of equal-area projections and grids' in M. Goodchild (Ed.) Discrete Global Grids. Santa Barbara, CA, USA: National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis.
Knowles, Kenneth W. 1993. Points, pixels, grids, and cells -- a mapping and gridding primer. Unpublished report to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colorado USA.
Knowles, Kenneth W. Intercomparison of Resampling Methods for SMMR Pathfinder in EASE-Grid Format. Unpublished report to geospatialmethods.org, Boulder, Colorado USA.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2006-12-04
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