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
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 CLASSIFICATIONNORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI)SOIL CLASSIFICATIONSOIL TEXTURESURFACE ROUGHNESS
Platform(s):
NOT APPLICABLE
Sensor(s):
NOT APPLICABLE
Data Format(s):
Binary, HDF5, ASCII
Temporal Coverage:
31 January 2015 to present
Temporal Resolution:
  • Not applicable
Spatial Resolution:
  • not applicable
  • not applicable
Spatial Coverage:
N:
86.4
S:
-86.4
E:
180
W:
-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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SMAP Ancillary data sets are used to produce SMAP Level-1, -2, -3, and -4 standard data products.

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