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aliases:
  - context: dataset
    lexicon: nsidc
    term: oai:nsidc/AE_Land
    url: http://nsidc.org/api/dataset/2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=dif&identifier=oai:nsidc/AE_Land
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contributors:
  - display_name: 'Data Archive : National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/4440.yaml
    id: 4440
    organization:
      country_code: US
      display_name: National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
      identifier: national-snow-ice-data-center-distributed-active-archive-center
      name: National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
      organization_type_identifier: federal
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      url: http://nsidc.org/daac
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description: 'The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA EOS Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles. Soil moisture and other land surface variables are key variables in understanding land surface hydrology and in modeling ecosystems, weather, and climate. This Level-2B land surface product (AE_Land) includes daily measurements of surface soil moisture, vegetation/roughness water content interpretive information, and quality control variables. Ancillary data include time, geolocation, and quality assessment. Input brightness temperature data at 10.7 GHz, corresponding to a 38 km mean spatial resolution, are resampled to a global cylindrical 25 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid) cell spacing. Data are stored in HDF-EOS point format, and are available from 18 June 2002 to 3 October 2011 via FTP.'
description_attribution: ~
display_name: 'AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids'
doi: 10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_LAND.002
end_time: 2011-10-03T00:00:00
files: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-ae_land.yaml
identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-ae_land
instrument_measurements:
  - dataset_identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-ae_land
    display_name: aqua/advanced-microwave-scanning-radiometer-eos/nasa-nsidcdaac-ae_land
    instrument_identifier: advanced-microwave-scanning-radiometer-eos
    platform_identifier: aqua
    type: instrument_measurement
lat_max: 89.24
lat_min: -89.24
lon_max: 180
lon_min: -180
name: 'AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parms, & QC EASE-Grids'
native_id: AE_Land
parents: []
processing_level: ~
publication_year: ~
references: []
release_dt: 2004-01-01T00:00:00
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scope: ~
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spatial_res: ~
start_time: 2002-06-18T00:00:00
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type: dataset
uri: /dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-ae_land
url: http://nsidc.org/data/AE_Land
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version: ~
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