The GCOM-W1 NRT AMSR2 Unified Level-2B Half-Orbit 25 km EASE-Grid Surface Soil Moisture dataset (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/AMSR2/A2_Land_NRT) is now available from the NASA Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) AMSR2 Processing Center at the Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC). This dataset is generated in near real time, as data are acquired from the AMSR2 instrument on the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) GCOM-W1 satellite. The product includes daily measurements of surface soil moisture produced by two retrieval algorithms, (Normalized Polarization Difference (NPD) algorithm developed by JPL and the Single Channel Algorithm (SCA) developed by USDA), using NRT Level-1R resampled brightness temperature data provided by JAXA. LANCE AMSR2 Land imagery will be available in Worldview very soon.
