AMSR-E/Aqua surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km ascending V002 (LPRM_AMSRE_A_SOILM3) at GES DISC

Description

AMSR-E/Aqua surface soil moisture (LPRM) L3 1 day 25 km x 25 km ascending V002 is a Level 3 (gridded) data set. Its land surface parameters, surface soil moisture, land surface (skin) temperature, and vegetation water content, are derived from passive microwave remote sensing data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E), using the Land Parameter Retrieval Model (LPRM). There are two files per day, one ascending (daytime) and one descending (nighttime), archived as two different products. This document is for the daytime product. The data set covers the period from June 2002 to October 2011 (when the AMSR-E on the NASA EOS Aqua satellite stopped producing data due to a problem with the rotation of its antenna). The LPRM is based on a forward radiative transfer model to retrieve surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth. The land surface temperature is derived separately from the AMSR-E's Ka-band (36.5 GHz). A unique feature of this method is that it can be applied at any microwave frequency, making it very suitable to exploit all the available passive microwave data from various satellites. Input data are from the AMSR-E resampled brightness temperatures (AE_L2A) product, daytime passes, as processed using LPRM (i.e., LPRM/AMSR-E/Aqua L2B product, LPRM_AMSRE_SOILM2_V002).

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34 LPRM_AMSRE_A_SOILM3_002.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/LPRM_AMSRE_A_SOILM3_002.png
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/WAOB/LPRM_AMSRE_A_SOILM3.002/
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=LPRM_AMSRE_A_SOILM3
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/LPRM_AMSRE_A_SOILM3_002.html
21 GES DISC Hydrology Documentation https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/documents?title=Hydrology+Documentation
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FX3K5V3NNLYAV
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/LPRM_AMSRE_A_SOILM3.002/contents.html
21 The GES-DISC Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Interface (Giovanni) is a web-based tool that allows users to interactively visualize and analyze data. https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/#service=TmAvMp&starttime=&endtime=&dataKeyword=LPRM_AMSRE_A_SOILM3
33 README Document https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/WAOB/LPRM_AMSRE_A_SOILM3.002/doc/README_LPRM.pdf
21 GES DISC Data Rods Documentation https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/tools?title=Hydrology+Data+Rods

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  • soils
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • vegetation
  • surface-thermal-properties
  • earth-science

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