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February 6, 2017

AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L2B Half-Orbit 25 km EASE-Grid Surface Soil Moisture, Version 1 Released

The Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) has released the AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L2B Half-Orbit 25 km EASE-Grid Surface Soil Moisture data set. This data set provides a long-term data record (23… Read more »

February 2, 2017

NSIDC Polaris Search and Order being Retired 15 February 2017

THE NSIDC Polaris Search and Order tool will be retired on 15 February 2017. Please contact NSIDC User Services via email: nsidc@nsidc.org with questions.

May 29, 2014

NSIDC Web Site and FTP Server Down for System Maintenance

From 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 04 until noon Friday, June 06  (USA Mountain Time), our Web site and FTP server will be unavailable due to system maintenance. We apologize for… Read more »

May 14, 2013

AMSR2 Brightness Temperature Data Now Available at JAXA

Brightness Temperature data products from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) onboard the Global Change Observation Mission 1st

May 13, 2013

AMSR2 Brightness Temperature Data Now Available at JAXA

Brightness Temperature data products from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) onboard the Global Change Observation Mission 1st – Water (GCOM-W1) satellite have recently been released by the Japan… Read more »

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