The NESDIS operational Land Surface Emissivity (LSE) products are available from 23, 31 and 50.3 GHz channel measurements of the Advanced Microwave Sounding Units (AMSU) -A aboard on the NOAA POES satellites.  The products are available at both pixel and grid levels

Product shows soil moisture for land regions. The soil moisture is derived from the passive microwave sensor SSM/I, which has 7 channels of 19 GHz (H, V), 22 GHz (V), 37 GHz (H, V), and 85 GHz (H, V), where H is the horizontal polarization, V is the vertical polarization. The soil moisture varies from 0 to 70 mm with accuracy of 1 mm. The product is updated once per day at 4 am EST.

This product is originally generated by Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC). NOAA/NESDIS gets the product through an interagency program referred to as the Shared Processing Program in which NOAA, the US Air Force and US Navy participate. OSDPD converts the product into HDF-EOS and WMO BUFR formats and distributed to users.

Product shows false color images of derived product imagery of the temperature of the uppermost layer of the land surface (degrees K). The DPI products are generated hourly with coverage over the CONUS and adjacent ocean areas.

Land Surface Temperature (LST) is a key indicator of land surface states, and can provide information on surface-atmosphere heat and mass fluxes, vegetation water stress, and soil moisture. It is one of the key parameters in the physics of land surface processes, combining surface-atmosphere interactions and the energy fluxes between the atmosphere and the ground.

The NESDIS operational LST product is derived from 23, 31 and 50.3 GHz channel measurements of the Advanced Microwave Sounding Units (AMSU) -A aboard on the NOAA POES satellites, and is expressed here in Degree Kelvin.  The products are available at both pixel and grid levels.

Product shows surface temperature over land. The land surface temperature is derived from the passive microwave sensor SSM/I, which has 7 channels of 19 GHz (H, V), 22 GHz (V), 37 GHz (H, V), and 85 GHz (H, V), where H is the horizontal polarization, V is the vertical polarization. The land surface temperature varies from -99 to 69 with accuracy of 1 Degree Kelvin. The product is updated once per day at 4 am EST.

This product is originally generated by Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC). NOAA/NESDIS gets the product through an interagency program referred to as the Shared Processing Program in which NOAA, the US Air Force and US Navy participate. OSDPD converts the product into HDF-EOS and WMO BUFR formats and distributed to users.

Product shows surface type around the world. The surface type is defined with the surface tag values at a given latitude and longitude. The surface types include: Floods; Dense Vegetation; Agricultural/Range Vegetation; Dry arable soil; Moist soil; Semi-Desert; Desert; Composite vegetation and water; Composite soil and water; Dry snow; Wet snow; Refrozen snow; Glacial ice. The product is updated once per day at 4 am EST.

This product is originally generated by Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC). NOAA/NESDIS gets the product through an interagency program referred to as the Shared Processing Program in which NOAA, the US Air Force and US Navy participate. OSDPD converts the product into HDF-EOS and WMO BUFR formats and distributed to users.

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