AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids, Version 2

Data Contributors NJOKU, ENI G. Parameters SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT VEGETATION > PLANT CHARACTERISTICS > VEGETATION WATER CONTENT Instruments AMSR-E : ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EOS

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The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA 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 Level-2B land surface product (AE_Land) includes daily measurements of surface soil moisture, vegetation/roughness water content interpretive information, and quality control variables. Ancillary data include time, geolocation, and quality assessment. Input brightness temperature data at 10.7 GHz, corresponding to a 38 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 point format, and are available from 18 June 2002 to the present via FTP.

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E.G. Njoku. 2004. AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids. Version 2. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.

See Also

• AMSR-E Data at NSIDC
• NASA AMSR-E web site
• AMSR-E/Aqua Data at NSIDC
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