Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L1-L3 Ancillary Static Data, Version 1
Data set id:
SMAP_L1_L3_ANC_STATIC
DOI: 10.5067/HB8BPJ13TDQJ
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
This ancillary SMAP product contains more than 50 data sets. These data sets contain the inputs necessary to create SMAP products from raw instrument counts, such as permanent masks (land, water, forest, urban, mountain, etc.), the grid cell average elevation and slope derived from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM), permanent open water fraction, soils information (primarily sand and clay fraction), vegetation parameters, and surface roughness parameters.
Parameter(s):
DIGITAL ELEVATION/TERRAIN MODEL (DEM)
LAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION
NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI)
SOIL CLASSIFICATION
SOIL TEXTURE
SURFACE ROUGHNESS
Platform(s):
NOT APPLICABLE
Sensor(s):
NOT APPLICABLE
Data Format(s):
Binary
HDF5
ASCII
Temporal Coverage:
- 14 January 2015 to present
Temporal Resolution:
- Not applicable
Spatial Resolution:
- not applicable
- not applicable
Spatial Reference System(s):
Not Specified
Spatial Coverage:
- N:86.4S:-86.4E:180W:-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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General Questions & FAQs
This article covers frequently asked questions about the NASA NSIDC DAAC's Earthdata cloud migration project and what it means to data users.
SMAP Ancillary data sets are used to produce SMAP Level-1, -2, -3, and -4 standard data products.
The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) is migrating its primary data access from its legacy, on-premises archive to the NASA Earthdata Cloud.
How to Articles
Many NSIDC DAAC data sets can be accessed using NSIDC DAAC's Data Access Tool. This tool provides the ability to search and filter data with spatial and temporal constraints using a map-based interface.Users have the option to: