Related URL

Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE Description: AMSR-E Web site at NSIDC Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: NASA AMSR-E Web site

Geographic Coverage

N: 89.24

S: -89.24

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Eni G. Njoku Dataset Title: AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Surface Soil Moisture, Interpretive Parameters, & QC EASE-Grids Dataset Release Date: 2004-01-01 Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO U.S.A. Dataset Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Version: 2 Other Citation Details: updated 2008 for Version 2 Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/ae_land3.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2002-06-18

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 25 km Longitude Resolution: 25 km Temporal Resolution: daily

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE >VEGETATION >PLANT CHARACTERISTICS >VEGETATION WATER CONTENT    [Definition]

LAND SURFACE >SOILS >SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT    [Definition]

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING >MICROWAVE >BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE    [Definition]

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING >MICROWAVE >MICROWAVE IMAGERY    [Definition]

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

AQUA >Earth Observing System, AQUA    [Information]

Instrument

AMSR-E >Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS    [Information]

Project

EOS >Earth Observing System    [Information]

EOSDIS >Earth Observing System Data Information System    [Information]

ESIP >Earth Science Information Partners Program    [Information]

CWIC >CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog    [Information]

Quality

Each HDF-EOS file contains core metadata with QA metadata flags that are set by the Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) prior to delivery to NSIDC. A separate metadata file in XML format is also delivered to NSIDC with the HDF-EOS file; it contains the same information as the core metadata. Three levels of quality assessment (QA) are conducted with the AMSR-E Level 2 and 3 products: automatic, operational, and science QA. If a product does not fail QA, it is ready to be used for higher-level processing, browse generation, active science QA, archive, and distribution. If a granule fails QA, SIPS does not send the granule to NSIDC until it is reprocessed. Level-3 products that fail QA are never delivered to NSIDC (Conway 2002).

Keywords

AE_Land3

AMSR-E

Aqua

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES

DAAC

EASE-Grid

EOS PM-1

EOSDIS

Hydrology

Imagery

land surface temperatures

NASA

NSIDC

Passive Microwave Radiation

Radiance

Remote Sensing

Soil Water Content

Tbs

Vegetation Status

Vegetation Water Content

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Data Center

NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center    [Information] Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html Dataset ID: AE_Land31 Data Center Personnel Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

National Snow and Ice Data Center    [Information] Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org Dataset ID: AE_Land31 Data Center Personnel Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution_Media: FTP Distribution_Size: approx. 60 MB per granule (i.e., per Distribution_Format: HDF-EOS

Personnel

ENI G. NJOKU Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 818-354-3693 Email: njoku at lor.jpl.nasa.gov Contact Address: M/S 300-233 Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology 4800 Oak Grove Drive City: Pasadena Province or State: CA Postal Code: 91109-8099 Country: USA

NSIDC USER SERVICES Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA