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    • SWOT Level 2 Water Mask Raster Image Data Product, Version C

    Metadata Updated: April 9, 2026

    The SWOT Level 2 Water Mask Raster Image Data Product from the Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides global surface water elevation and inundation extent derived from high rate (HR) measurements from the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) on SWOT. SWOT launched on December 16, 2022 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California into a 1-day repeat orbit for the "calibration" or "fast-sampling" phase of the mission, which completed in early July 2023. After the calibration phase, SWOT entered a 21-day repeat orbit in August 2023 to start the "science" phase of the mission, which is expected to continue through 2025.
    Water surface elevation, area, water fraction, backscatter, geophysical information are provided in geographically fixed scenes at resolutions of 100 m and 250 m in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection. Available in netCDF-4 file format. On-demand processing available to users for different resolutions, sampling grids, scene sizes, and file formats.
    Please note that this collection contains SWOT Version C science data products.
    This dataset is the parent collection to the following sub-collections:
    https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/SWOT_L2_HR_Raster_100m_2.0
    https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/SWOT_L2_HR_Raster_250m_2.0

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 9, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 9, 2026
    Publisher Jet Propulsion Laboratory;NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/SWOT-RASTER-2.0
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90.0,"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180.0,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90.0}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash dfb43c8c33c6f3b744da199fe35ee6b8b6643aeb3b26c60890e19e6226dd49c6
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial

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