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The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) now includes Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) data products distributed by the National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive… Read more »
Data Announcements: SMAP 
Probe-Based Soil Moisture Data Available for the SMAPVEX15 Campaign
Field data from the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2015 (SMAPVEX15) validation campaign are now available at the National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC… Read more »
Early Release of SMAPVEX16 Manitoba Validation Data
A variety of field data from the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2016 Manitoba (SMAPVEX16 Manitoba) validation campaign is now available at the National Snow and Ice Data Center… Read more »
Early Release of SMAPVEX16 Validation Data
Field data from the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2016 Manitoba (SMAPVEX16 Manitoba) validation campaign are now available at the National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive… Read more »
High-resolution SMAP/Sentinel-1 Soil Moisture Data Available
The beta version of the SMAP/Sentinel-1 L2 Radiometer/Radar 30-Second Scene 3 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed… Read more »
First of SMAPVEX15 Validation Data Sets Now Available
Field data from the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2015 (SMAPVEX15) validation campaign are now available at the National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC… Read more »
Updated SMAP Level-4 Products Available
SMAP Level-4 soil moisture and carbon data have been updated to Version 3 and are available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC… Read more »
Replacement Files Available for SMAP Data Impacted by Atmospheric Correction Issue
An issue involving the atmospheric correction algorithm used to process SMAP Level-1B (L1B) brightness temperatures, as noted in the Select Data Files Impacted by SMAP L1B Processing Error data announcement,… Read more »
Replacement Files Available for SMAP Data Impacted by Antenna Azimuth Issue
Due to a problem with the Antenna Azimuth file used to process the half-orbit 01966_A, the SMAP Science Data System (SDS) team has replaced the following files: SMAP_L1B_TB_01966_A_20150614T231537_R14010_001.h5 (Regenerated 2017-02-11)… Read more »
Select Data Files Impacted by SMAP L1B Processing Error
Due to a problem involving the atmospheric correction algorithm used to process SMAP Level-1B (L1B) brightness temperatures, select half-orbit data files contain invalid brightness temperature values. The errors occur infrequently,… Read more »
