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Data Set:
SMAP L1A Radiometer Time-Ordered Parsed Telemetry, Version 2
Data Set ID:
SPL1AP
Data Set Summary:

Each Level-1A (L1A) granule incorporates all radiometer data downlinked from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft for one specific half orbit. The data are scaled instrument counts of the following:

  • The first four raw moments of the fullband channel for both vertical and horizontal polarizations
  • The complex cross-correlations of the fullband channel
  • The 16 subband channels for both vertical and horizontal polarizations