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Description

<p> This Level-3 (L3) soil moisture product provides a composite of daily estimates of global land surface conditions retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radar as well as a variety of ancillary data sources. Input backscatter data used to derive soil moisture are resampled to an Earth-fixed, global, cylindrical 3 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 RADAR
Spatial Extent

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

Spatial Resolution
3 Kilometers x 3 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
C2880809871-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Soil Moisture/Water Content

Citation

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Kim, S., Van Zyl, J., Dunbar, R., Njoku, E., Johnson, J., Moghaddam, M., & Tsang, L. (2015). SMAP L3 Radar Global Daily 3 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 2 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/6QFA65R4RPOH Date Accessed: 2026-05-10

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