The Data Access Portal has information in 3 columns. An outline of the content in these columns is provided above. When first entering the search interface, all potential datasets are listed. Datasets are indicated in the map and results tabulation elements which are located in the middle column. The order of results can be modified using the "Sort by" option in the left column. On top of this column is normally relevant guidance information to user presented as collapsible elements.
If the user want to refine the search, this can be done by constraining the bounding box search. This is done in the map - the listing of datasets is automatically updated. Date constraints can be added in the left column. For these to take effect, the user has to push the button marked search. In the left column it is also possible to specific text elements to search for in the datasets. Again pushing the button marked "Search" is necessary for these to take action. Complex search patterns can be constructed by changing the operators used in the text field and prefixing words with '+' and '-' to indicate whether they have to be present or should not be present in the results.
Other elements indicated in the left and right columns are facet searches, i.e. these are keywords that are found in the datasets and all datasets that contain these specific keywords in the appropriate metadata elements are listed together. Further refinement can be done using full text, date or bounding box constraints. Individuals, organisations and data centres involved in generating or curating the datasets are listed in the facets in the right column.
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The information required to properly cite a dataset is normally provided in the discovery metadata the datasets.
author,
title,
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publisher (for data this is often the archive where it is housed),
edition or version,
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This data set contains backscatter data obtained by the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) instrument. The data were collected as part of the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12).
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. SMAP L-band soil moisture data are resampled to an Earth-fixed, global, cylindrical 3 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0).
This Level-3 (L3) product provides a daily composite of Northern Hemisphere landscape freeze/thaw conditions retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radar from 6:00 a.m. descending and 6:00 p.m. ascending half-orbit passes. SMAP L-band backscatter data are used to derive freeze/thaw data, which are then resampled to an Earth-fixed, Northern Hemisphere azimuthal 3 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0).
This data set contains brightness temperatures obtained by the Passive Active L-band System (PALS) microwave aircraft radiometer instrument as part of the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2008 (SMAPVEX08).
This data set contains brightness temperatures obtained by the Passive Active L-band System (PALS) aircraft instrument. The data were collected as part of SMAPVEX12, the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2012.
This data set is comprised of several parameters from in situ measurements collected for the Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign 2007 (CLASIC07).
The Vegetation Water Content (VWC) map for the Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign 2007 (CLASIC07) was derived by calculating Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) from ResourceSat-1 satellite imagery.
This data set contains land cover classification data collected for the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2016 Manitoba (SMAPVEX16 Manitoba) campaign.
This ancillary SMAP product contains meteorological model configurations, including model inputs. The meteorological model is derived from the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) data set and used as an input in the SMAP L4 Carbon algorithm.
These data consist of ground-based, soil moisture, soil temperature, and air temperature measurements recorded by twenty-five temporary stations located in the vicinity of Petersham, MA during the SMAPVEX19-22 campaign. The stations were installed across an area of approximately 23 km by 36 km in May 2019 and operated through 2022. Note that the product is named SMAPVEX19-22 because, although the current coverage is through 2021, it is projected to include 2022 data in the future.
This data set contains in situ measurements of crop density, height, and biomass collected for the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2016 Manitoba (SMAPVEX16 Manitoba) campaign.
This Level-1C (L1C) product provides time-ordered, parsed telemetry data retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radar during 6:00 a.m. descending and 6:00 p.m. ascending half-orbit passes. The major contents of the product are normalized radar cross section (sigma nought) measurements multilooked into 1 km square instrument swath-based grid cells where the center line of the grid corresponds to the path of the spacecraft nadir on the Earth’s surface.
This data set includes in situ vegetation data collected during the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2008 (SMAPVEX08) campaign. Sampling was designed to coincide with satellite overpasses, such as Landsat's Thematic Mapper (TM) 5 and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA's Terra satellite (MODIS/Terra), which can be then used to estimate vegetation water content on the regional scale.
This Level-1B (L1B) product provides time-ordered, parsed telemetry data retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radar during 6:00 a.m. descending and 6:00 p.m. ascending half-orbit passes. The major contents of the product are normalized radar cross section (sigma nought) measurements that represent discrete backscatter footprints on the Earth’s surface, as well as representative backscatter measurements for a set of slices within each footprint.
This data set contains in situ vegetation data collected at several agricultural sites as a part of the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12).