SMAP/Sentinel-1 L2 Radiometer/Radar 30-Second Scene 3 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 2

Data set id:

SPL2SMAP_S

DOI: 10.5067/KE1CSVXMI95Y

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Das, N., Entekhabi, D., Dunbar, R. S., Kim, S., Yueh, S., Colliander, A., O'Neill, P. E., Jackson, T., Jagdhuber, T., Chen, F., Crow, W. T., Walker, J., Berg, A., Bosch, D., Caldwell, T. & Cosh, M. (2018). SMAP/Sentinel-1 L2 Radiometer/Radar 30-Second Scene 3 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture. (SPL2SMAP_S, Version 2). [Data Set]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/KE1CSVXMI95Y. [describe subset used if applicable]. Date Accessed 12-30-2024.

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Das, N., Entekhabi, D., Dunbar, S., Chaubell, J., Colliander, A., Yueh, S., Jagdhuber, T., Chen, F., Crow, W. T., O'Neill, P. E., Walker, J., Berg, A., Bosch, D., Caldwell, T., Cosh, M., Holifield -Collins, C., Lopez-Baeza, E. & Thibeault, M.. 2019. The SMAP and Copernicus Sentinel 1A/B microwave active-passive high resolution surface soil moisture product. Remote Sensing of Environment. 233. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111380.

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Version Summary

Changes to this version include:

Implemented a new method of identifying and eliminating spurious sigma0 values in Sentinel-1A/B Level-1 sigma0 data using a hybrid approach that combines a median filter with thresholding. As a result, fewer spurious sigma0 values (mainly due to small man-made structures) bias the aggregated 1 km data.

Replaced the previous 3 km resolution urban fraction map with a new 1 km map.

Adjusted the thresholds used with the new 1 km urban fraction map to: 0.25 (no flag), 0.25 – 0.5 (flagged, retrieval performed), and 0.5 (masked, no retrieval). These are provided in bit 3 of the surface_flag data field.

Adjusted the tau-omega parameters to be consistent with the values used in SPL2SMP/SPL2SMP_E algorithm.

Implemented minor bug fix to the SMAP and Sentinel-1 overlap computation code.

For the full major and minor version history, go to https://nsidc.org/data/smap/version-history

Overview

This Level-2 (L2) soil moisture product provides estimates of land surface conditions retrieved by both the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radiometer during 6:00 a.m. descending and 6:00 p.m. ascending half-orbit passes and the Sentinel-1A and -1B radar. SMAP L-band brightness temperatures and Copernicus Sentinel-1 C-band backscatter coefficients are used to derive soil moisture data, which are then resampled to an Earth-fixed, cylindrical 3 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0).Note: These data are Beta-release quality, meaning that they have not undergone full validation and may still contain significant errors.

Parameter(s):

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURESIGMA NAUGHTSOIL MOISTURE

Platform(s):

SENTINEL-1A, SENTINEL-1B, SMAP

Sensor(s):

C-SAR, SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER

Data Format(s):

HDF5

Temporal Coverage:

31 March 2015 to 26 August 2020

Temporal Resolution:

30 second

Spatial Resolution:

3 km

3 km

Spatial Reference System(s):

WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 Global

EPSG:6933

Spatial Coverage:

N:

60

S:

-60

E:

180

W:

-180

Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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