How to download and reformat SMAP data from EARTH DATA website ...

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Feb 22, 2017 - Go to earth data website: https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/ ... choose your desire sub dataset (this way the file will become small and easy to.
How to download and reformat SMAP data from EARTH DATA website: 1. Go to earth data website: https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/ 2. Enter the SMAP name and temporal and spatial extent

3. Choose the product (I choose enhanced 9km soil moisture data)

4. Click view project and then click the download button

5. In service option choose the 3rd one “SPL3SMP_E.1 ESI Service”

6. You can choose the output file type ( for ex: GeoTIFF), subset the data by entering a bounding box, and choose your desire sub dataset (this way the file will become small and easy to download)

Reformatting

Subsetting

Choosing the subdataset

7. You might need to do registration before doing all of this which is easy 8. Then the file will be send to your provided email, and you can easily open the GeoTIFF in almost all available commercial software including ArcGIS

Written by Ehsan Jalilvand, 22 February 2017

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