The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) will add 22 data sets from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) collection to NASA Earthdata Cloud on 3 December 2024. Earthdata Cloud is NASA’s archive of Earth observations, hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). While these data sets will continue to be available via their current URLs and workflows, these legacy access methods will be retired soon. Therefore, users are encouraged to update their direct download workflows, including any data download scripts, to use the new Earthdata Cloud HTTPS location after 3 December 2024. The Earthdata Cloud HTTPS data access URL will be available from each data set landing page using the HTTPS File System link under Data Access & Tools after the publication date.
The URL for access to the legacy HTTPS File System will be removed from the data set landing page when the data are added to Earthdata Cloud. However, you can continue to find legacy HTTPS URL in the Programmatic Data Access Guide at https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/help-center/programmatic-data-access-guide.
Please note that newly ingested data may be available on the legacy HTTPS File System a few hours before they are available on the new Earthdata Cloud HTTPS File System. In rare cases, data may take up to 2 days to become available in Earthdata Cloud.
The NSIDC DAAC User Services Office currently supports users with direct data download from the Earthdata Cloud HTTPS and with basic access to our AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. For more details on the access options, please see the following help resources: https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/help-center/nasa-earthdata-cloud-data-access-guide
See the SMAP data page for a listing of data sets at https://nsidc.org/data/smap/data