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Description

This gridded Level-3 land surface product (AE_Land3) includes daily measurements of surface soil moisture and vegetation/roughness water content interpretive information, as well as brightness temperatures and quality control variables. Ancillary data include time, geolocation, and quality assessment.

Version Description

See https://nsidc.org/data/amsre/version-history

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua
Instruments
AMSR-E
Spatial Extent

N: 89.24 S: -89.24 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers
Spatial Reference System(s)
NSIDC EASE-Grid Global (EPSG:3410)
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2002-06-19 to 2011-10-03
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C3235723259-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
3366
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Brightness Temperature ,
Microwave Imagery ,
Soil Moisture/Water Content ,
Vegetation Water Content

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Njoku, E. (2004). AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parameters, & QC EASE-Grids, Version 2 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_LAND3.002 Date Accessed: 2026-05-18

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Soil Texture, Soil Moisture, and Sentinel-1 Backscattering: Towards the Stanyer, Claire, Seco-Rizo, Irene, Atzberger, Clement, Marti-Cardona, Belen Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Intercomparison of very high-resolution surface soil moisture products over Catalonia (Spain) Ouaadi, Nadia, Jarlan, Lionel, Le Page, Michel, Zribi, Mehrez, Paolini, Giovani, Ait Hssaine, Bouchra, Escorihuela, Maria Jose, Fanise, Pascal, Merlin, Olivier, Baghdadi, Nicolas, Boone, Aaron Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Global L-band equivalent AI-based vegetation optical depth dataset Skulovich, Olya, Li, Xiaojun, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre, Gentine, Pierre Brightness Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content, Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery
The application of satellite sensors, current state of utilization, and sources of remote sensing dataset in hydrology for water resource management Abegeja, Daniel Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
A Long-term Consistent Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing-based Soil Moisture Dataset Skulovich, Olya, Gentine, Pierre Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Brightness Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content, Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery
Sentinel-1 Backscatter and Interferometric Coherence for Soil Moisture Retrieval in Winter Wheat Fields Within a Semiarid South-Mediterranean Climate: Machine Learning Versus Semiempirical Models Ezzahar, Jamal, Chehbouni, Abdelghani, Ouaadi, Nadia, Madiafi, Mohammed, Said, Khabba, Er-Raki, Salah, Laamrani, Ahmed, Chakir, Adnane, Chabaane, Zohra Lili, Zribi, Mehrez Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Monitoring water storage decline over the Middle East Khaki, Mehdi, Hoteit, Ibrahim Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Vegetation Water Content
Modelling the Nile's Waters: Assimilation Awange, Joseph Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
The Nile Waters: Weighed from Space Awange, Joseph Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Toward operational validation systems for global satellite-based terrestrial essential climate variables Bayat, Bagher, Camacho, Fernando, Nickeson, Jaime, Cosh, Michael, Bolten, John, Vereecken, Harry, Montzka, Carsten Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Albedo, Anisotropy, Reflectance, Sea Surface Temperature
Estimation and evaluation of high spatial resolution surface soil moisture using multi-sensor multi-resolution approach Koley, Swadhina, Jeganathan, C. Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Multi-mission satellite remote sensing data for improving land hydrological models via data assimilation Khaki, M., Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., Han, S. C. Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Monitoring of wheat crops using the backscattering coefficient and the interferometric coherence derived from Sentinel-1 in semi-arid areas Ouaadi, Nadia, Jarlan, Lionel, Ezzahar, Jamal, Zribi, Mehrez, Khabba, Said, Bouras, Elhoussaine, Bousbih, Safa, Frison, Pierre-Louis Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Altimetry-derived surface water data assimilation over the Nile Basin Khaki, Mehdi, Awange, Joseph Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Calibrating land hydrological models and enhancing their forecasting skills using an ensemble Kalman filter with one-step-ahead smoothing Khaki, Mehdi, Ait-El-Fquih, Boujemaa, Hoteit, Ibrahim Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Satellite Remote Sensing in Hydrological Data Assimilation Khaki, Mehdi Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Assessing data assimilation frameworks for using multi-mission satellite products in a hydrological context Khaki, M., Hoteit, I., Kuhn, M., Forootan, E., Awange, J. Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Development of soil moisture profiles through coupled microwavethermal infrared observations in the southeastern United States Mishra, Vikalp, Cruise, James F., Hain, Christopher R., Mecikalski, John R., Anderson, Martha C. Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Emerging and potential future applications of satellite-based soil moisture products Tebbs, E., Gerard, F., Petrie, A., De Witte, E. Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
Multi-objective calibration of a hydrologic model using spatially distributed remotely sensed/in-situ soil moisture Rajib, Mohammad Adnan, Merwade, Venkatesh, Yu, Zhiqiang Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
The Effect of Vegetation on the Remotely Sensed Soil Thermal Inertia and a Two-Source Normalized Soil Thermal Inertia Model for Vegetated Surfaces Zhang, Renhua, Tian, Jing, Mi, Sujuan, Su, Hongbo, He, Honglin, Li, Zhaoliang, Liu, Kai Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Vegetation Water Content
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