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Metadata
1 English
language
Metadata
2 MOSDAC
Contact
Metadata
3 April, 2015
date
Data
Soil Wetness Map derived using SMAP L-band
4 Lineage or
Radiometer data
Quality
5 Title Soil Wetness Index.
Soil Wetness Index (SWI) is derived using a time
series based methodology using SMAP L-band
6 Abstract radiometer data, normalized to the extreme values of
0 and 1, corresponding to the dry and saturated soil
wetness conditions respectively.
Dharmendra Kumar Pandey, Sasmita Chaurasia,
Dataset EPSA, Space Applications Centre (ISRO),
7
Contact Ahmedabad-380015, dkp@sac.isro.gov.in,
sasmita@sac.isro.gov.in
Update
8 3 day composite
frequency
Access
9 Rights or Open Access
Restriction
Spatial
10 40 km (resampled at 0.125 degrees)
Resolution
11 Language English
Topic
12 Land
Category
Soil Wetness Index, SMAP. SWI, Soil Moisture Active
13 Keywords
Passive
Date or
14 April 2015
period
Dharmendra Kumar Pandey,EPSA, Space
Responsible
15 Applications Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad-380015,
Party
India
16 Organization Space Applications Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad, India
16a Org. role Geophysical parameters retrieval from satellite
Dharmendra Kumar pandeyEPSA, SAC (ISRO),
Individual
16b Ahmedabad-380015, India. Ph: +91 79 2691 4005.
name
Email: dkp@sac.isro.gov.in
16c Position Scientist/Engineer, EPSA, SAC (ISRO), Ahmedabad-

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380015, India. Ph: +91 79 2691 4005. Email:

dkp@sac.isro.gov.in
Geographic
17 Indian Land mask
Extent
Geographic
name,
18 Indian Region
geographic
Identifier
Bounding lat_min: 05N, lat_max: 24N, lon_min: 68E, lon_max:
19
box 90E
Temporal
20 April 2015 onwards
Extent
Access
21 Rights or Open Access
Restrictions
Distribution
22 Online download in Geotiff format.
Information
Processing
23 Level 2
Level
Reference
24 Datum: WGS84
System

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