NSCAT Twice-Daily SIR-Enhanced EASE-Grid 2.0 Radar Backscatter V001

Description

This data set provides twice-daily enhanced-resolution radar backscatter images from 14 GHz NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) observations by applying the Scatterometer Image Reconstruction with Filtering (SIRF) algorithm. The algorithm incorporates a median filter and a simplified spatial response function. Multiple passes of the spacecraft are combined to produce a higher spatial resolution and fill in coverage gaps between the individual measurement footprints, which are not contiguous and have six-sided shapes. Overlapping imaging periods start each day and extend through 4- and 8-day periods. Data are gridded to Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, and Temperate EASE-Grid 2.0 projections at 3.125 km and 25 km resolutions.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/SMAP/NSIDC-0786.001/
21 Provides access to data, documentation, tools, citation information, support, and other resources. https://doi.org/10.5067/APSWI5NK3PKJ
21 Search and filter data files using a map-based interface https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/NSIDC-0786/versions/001
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/APSWI5NK3PKJ
21 NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=NSIDC-0786+V001
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FAPSWI5NK3PKJ

Tags

  • spectral-engineering
  • radar
  • earth-science

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