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Description

<p> This Level-3 (L3) soil moisture product provides a daily composite of global land surface conditions retrieved by both the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radar and radiometer. Input SMAP L-band backscatter and brightness temperature data used to derive soil moisture are resampled to an Earth-fixed, global, cylindrical 9 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0). </p>
<p>Note: These data are Beta-release quality, meaning that they have not undergone full validation and may still contain significant errors.</p>

Version Description

First public data release

Product Summary

Platforms
SMAP Observatory
Instruments
SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER ,
SMAP L-BAND RADAR
Spatial Extent

N: 85.044 S: -85.044 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
9 Kilometers x 9 Kilometers
Location
GLOBAL LAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2015-04-13 to 2015-07-07
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C2872767107-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Soil Moisture

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

Entekhabi, D., Das, N., Njoku, E., Johnson, J., & Shi, J. (2015). SMAP L3 Radar/Radiometer Global Daily 9 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 2 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/F88YVH7CVNXS Date Accessed: 2026-05-17

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