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    • SWOT Level 2 River Single-Pass Vector Data Product, Version D

    Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

    The SWOT Level 2 River Single-Pass Vector Data Product (SWOT_L2_HR_RiverSP_D) provides hydrologic measurements for predefined river reaches and nodes, derived from high-resolution radar observations collected by the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) aboard the SWOT satellite. This product reports water surface elevation, slope, width, area, and discharge estimates for each reach, along with corresponding node-level details. All features are defined by the Prior River Database (PRD), which encodes river geometry and topology across global basins.Each granule covers a single satellite pass over one or more continents and includes two ESRI shapefiles: one for river reaches (as polylines) and one for nodes (as points). Shapefile attributes include both SWOT-derived measurements and metadata from the PRD. Water surface elevations are referenced to the WGS84 ellipsoid and are corrected for geoid height and solid Earth, load, and pole tides. Measurements are aggregated from lower-level pixel detections (PIXC product) assigned to hydrologic features via the auxiliary PIXCVec product. The product also includes consensus and algorithm-specific river discharge estimates, both unconstrained and constrained by historical gauge data.The RiverSP product provides reach-scale hydrologic variables suitable for analyzing inland water dynamics, estimating discharge, and monitoring river changes over time. It enables direct integration with the PRD-defined river network and supports applications in large-scale hydrologic modeling, basin monitoring, and water resource management. Data are distributed in shapefile format with metadata and attribute definitions aligned to GIS and hydrologic standards.This dataset is the parent collection to the following sub-collections: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/SWOT_L2_HR_RiverSP_node_D https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/SWOT_L2_HR_RiverSP_reach_D

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 29, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 29, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025
    Publisher Jet Propulsion Laboratory;NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/SWOT-RIVERSP-D
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/swot_mission_docs/D-109532_SWOT_UserHandbook_RevA_20250311_sig-final.pdf
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"NorthBoundingCoordinate":90,"WestBoundingCoordinate":-180,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-90}
    Program Code 026:000
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    Source Hash 37fbc701452e7a1427885a10e204c0eb39d14bf779bc3e667470869f16f28ac2
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2022-12-16/2022-12-16

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