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SPL2SMP_E.004SMAP Enhanced L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 9 km EASE-Grid Soil MoistureO'Neill, P. E., S. Chan, E. G. Njoku, T. Jackson, R. Bindlish, and J. Chaubell.SMAP Enhanced L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 9 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture2020-09-01Boulder, Colorado USANASA NSIDC DAAC: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center4false10.5067/Q8J8E3A89923https://doi.org/10.5067/Q8J8E3A89923SPL2SMP_EChan, S., R. Bindlish, P. E. O'Neill, T. Jackson, E. G. Njoku, S. Dunbar, J. Chaubell, J. R. Piepmeier, S. Yueh, D. Entekhabi, A. Colliander, F. Chen, M. Cosh, T. Caldwell, J. Walker, A. Berg, H. McNairn, M. Thibeault, J. Martinez-Fernandez, F. Uldall, M. Seyfried, D. Bosch, P. Starks, C. Holifield -Collins, J. Prueger, R. Van der Velde, J. Asanuma, M. Palecki, E. E. Small, M. Zreda, J. Calvet, W. T. Crow, and Y. Kerr2018Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture productRemote Sensing of the Environment204931–941<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.025">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.025</a>Literature CitationTechnical ContactNSIDCUser Servicesnsidc@nsidc.org1-303-492-61991-303-492-2468CIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309-0449USAEARTH SCIENCESPECTRAL/ENGINEERINGMICROWAVEBRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCELAND SURFACESOILSSOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENTSURFACE SOIL MOISTURE Climatology/Meteorology/AtmosphereGeoscientific InformationEASE-Grid SM-projectL2SMAP-projectSMAP-project-L2SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETERSMAP L-Band RadiometerSMAPSoil Moisture Active and Passive Observatory2015-03-312021-10-28complete-85.04485.044-180180GEOGRAPHIC REGIONGLOBAL LAND9 km9 km49 minuteSMAPSoil Moisture Active PassiveEach HDF5 file contains metadata with Quality Assessment (QA) metadata flags that are set by the Science Data Processing System (SDS) at the JPL prior to delivery to the National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). A separate metadata file with an .xml file extension is also delivered to NSIDC with the HDF5 file; it contains the same information as the HDF5 file-level metadata.
A separate QA file with a .qa file extension is also associated with the HDF5 file; it contains useful statistics such as the percentage of elements having various quality conditions. 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 product fails QA, it is never delivered to NSIDC DAAC.
The information in the following sections has been adapted from O'Neill et al. (2015).These data are freely, openly, and fully accessible, provided that you are logged into your NASA Earthdata profile (https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov/).These data are freely, openly, and fully available to use without restrictions, provided that you cite the data according to the recommended citation at https://nsidc.org/about/use_copyright.html. For more information on the NASA EOSDIS Data Use Policy, see https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/data-use-policy.EnglishNASA/JPL/SMAPNASA NSIDC DAACNASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Centerhttps://nsidc.org/daacData Center ContactNSIDCUser Servicesnsidc@nsidc.org1-303-492-6199National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309-0449USAHTTPSHDF5This enhanced Level-2 (L2) product contains calibrated, geolocated, brightness temperatures acquired by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radiometer during 6:00 a.m. descending and 6:00 p.m. ascending half-orbit passes. This product is derived from SMAP Level-1B (L1B) interpolated antenna temperatures. Backus-Gilbert optimal interpolation techniques are used to extract maximum information from SMAP antenna temperatures and convert them to brightness temperatures, which are posted to the 9 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0) in a global cylindrical projection [available as the SPl1CTB_E product]. These 9-km brightness temperatures are then used to retrieve surface soil moisture posted on the 9-km grid [this SPL2SMP_E product].VIEW RELATED INFORMATIONhttps://doi.org/10.5067/Q8J8E3A89923DocumentationCEOS IDN DIFVERSION 9.92020-09-012024-01-25NSIDCVersion SummaryChanges to this version include:
- Improved calibration methodology was applied to the Level-1B radiometer brightness temperatures.
- Improved land surface model outputs from the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) were used to estimate the effective soil temperature used as input to Level-2 soil moisture geophysical inversion. This effective soil temperature is not to be confused with the physical soil temperature at a given depth (Choudhury et al., 1982).
- Improved retrieval performance of DCA (formerly known as MDCA or "the option 3" option algorithm in previous releases). DCA retrieves both soil moisture and vegetation optical depth (VOD or tau).
- Use of a new global 250-meter resolution soils database called SoilGrid250m available at https://openlandmap.org. Work is underway to address limited spatial anomalies of these soil property estimates at high latitudes over areas rich in organic soils.
- Data quality flags were updated and corrected where faulty.
- The baseline algorithm (SCA-V) remains unchanged.
For the full major and minor version history, go to <a href="https://nsidc.org/data/smap/version-history">https://nsidc.org/data/smap/version-history</a>NSIDCMinor VersionR17000See Major Version summary.2015-03-312021-04-291R17030No science change. CRID incremented to coincide with ASA correction for SPL1BTB.2021-04-2917NSIDCSpatial Reference SystemsEPSG:6933WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 GlobalNSIDCLevel of ServiceNo Data AccessNSIDCFull Dataset CitationO'Neill, P. E., S. Chan, E. G. Njoku, T. Jackson, R. Bindlish, and J. Chaubell. 2020. <i>SMAP Enhanced L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 9 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture.</i> Version 4. [indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5067/Q8J8E3A89923">https://doi.org/10.5067/Q8J8E3A89923</a>. 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