SWOT Simulated Level 2: North America Water Surface Elevation

North America continent is the focus of this simulated rasterized water surface elevation and inundation-extent product for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. It is a derived product, resampling upstream pixel cloud data onto a uniform grid at 100 m and 250 m resolutions in a UTM projection. The dataset is described as a simulated product and not suited for scientific exploration.

Use Cases

• Previewing rasterized SWOT data format based on simulated water surface elevation
• Testing data processing workflows based on uniform grid aggregation from pixel cloud samples
• Assessing inundation-extent visualization based on simulated raster tiles

Strengths

• Provides simulated data at two specific spatial resolutions: 100 m and 250 m
• Derived from specific upstream SWOT mission datasets: L2_HR_PIXC_V1 and L2_HR_PIXCVEC_V1
• Available on multiple platforms (NASA Earthdata and Data.gov), indicating established distribution

Limitations

• Sources explicitly state the product is simulated and 'not suited for any scientific exploration'
• Column names, row counts, and exact data size are unknown across all platforms
• Last updated date conflicts between sources: one lists 2026-04-09, another lists 2022-08-22

Provenance

Source

POCLOUD

Collection Method

Derived through resampling upstream pixel cloud datasets onto a uniform grid

Freshness

2026-04-09 21:50:26.287308

Geography

North America continent