SMAP L2 Radar Half-Orbit 3 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture V003

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This Level-2 (L2) soil moisture product provides estimates of global land surface conditions retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) active radar during 6:00 a.m. descending half-orbit passes, as well as ancillary data such as surface temperature and vegetation water content. 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).

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bureauCode	[ "026:00" ]
identifier	C2812935277-NSIDC_CPRD
issued	2015-04-13
landingPage	https://doi.org/10.5067/J8SGO1E0Y9XZ
language	[ "en-US" ]
programCode	[ "026:001" ]
spatial	-180.0 -85.044 180.0 85.044
temporal	2015-04-13T00:00:00Z/2015-07-07T23:59:59.999Z
theme	[ "geospatial" ]