SWOT Level 2 Water Mask Pixel Cloud: Height and Backscatter

SWOT Version C science data products provide a point cloud of water mask pixels over tiles approximately 64x64 km2. The data includes geolocated heights, backscatter, geophysical fields, and flags for each pixel. It is available in netCDF-4 format and represents a half swath from the SWOT instrument.

Use Cases

• Mapping water extent based on the water mask pixel cloud.
• Analyzing water surface height changes based on geolocated heights.
• Studying backscatter properties of water bodies.
• Flagging data quality issues for hydrological models.
• Assessing geophysical fields over specific 64x64 km tiles.

Strengths

• Provides detailed point cloud data for water mask pixels.
• Includes multiple geophysical fields and flags for quality assessment.
• Covers a spatial tile of approximately 64x64 km2.
• Represents data from the SWOT satellite mission, Version C.

Limitations

• Column names are unknown across all sources, limiting precise feature understanding.
• Row count and dataset size are unspecified.
• License is listed as 'other-license-specified' without further detail.

Provenance

Source

POCLOUD

Collection Method

Satellite observation from the SWOT instrument.

Freshness

2026-04-09 21:47:00.857020

Geography

Global, tile-based (approx 64x64 km2).