CEDA Metadata Catalogue
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Version 04.2 data collection
Soil Moisture data (version 04.2) from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project. This dataset collection contains three surface soil moisture datasets, alongside ancilliary data products. The 'Active' and 'Passive' products have been created by fusing scatterometer and radiometer soil moisture products respectively. In the case of the 'Active' product, these have been derived from AMI-WS and ASCAT instruments and for the 'Passive' product from the instruments SMMR, SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat, AMSR2 and SMOS. The 'Combined Product' is then a blended product based on the former two data sets.
The homogenized and merged products present a global coverage of surface soil moisture at a spatial resolution of 0.25 degrees. The products are provided as global daily images, in NetCDF-4 classic file format, the Passive and Combined products covering the period (yyyy-mm-dd) 1978-11-01 to 2016-12-31 and the Active product covering 1991-08-05 to 2016-12-31. The soil moisture data for the Passive and the Combined product are provided in volumetric units [m3 m-3], while the active soil moisture data are expressed in percent of saturation [%]. For information regarding the theoretical and algorithmic base of the datasets, please see the Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD). Other additional documentation and information documentation relating to the datasets can also be found on the CCI Soil Moisture project web site or in the Product Specification Document.
The data set should be cited using the all three of the following references:
1. Dorigo, W.A., Wagner, W., Albergel, C., Albrecht, F., Balsamo, G., Brocca, L., Chung, D., Ertl, M., Forkel, M., Gruber, A., Haas, E., Hamer, D. P. Hirschi, M., Ikonen, J., De Jeu, R. Kidd, R. Lahoz, W., Liu, Y.Y., Miralles, D., Lecomte, P. (2017). ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions. In Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017, ISSN 0034-4257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.001
2. Gruber, A., Dorigo, W. A., Crow, W., Wagner W. (2017). Triple Collocation-Based Merging of Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. PP. 1-13. 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2734070
3. Liu, Y.Y., Dorigo, W.A., Parinussa, R.M., de Jeu, R.A.M. , Wagner, W., McCabe, M.F., Evans, J.P., van Dijk, A.I.J.M. (2012). Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals, Remote Sensing of Environment, 123, 280-297, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.014
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- Date (Publication)
- 2018-06-25T13:54:11
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-06-25T13:54:11
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 3a8a94c3fa464d68b6d70df291afd457
- Identifier
- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/3a8a94c3fa464d68b6d70df291afd457
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- ESA
- Soil Moisture
- CCI
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
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- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
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- Other constraints
- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- English
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1978-11-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2016-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Liu et al., 2011 Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals
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Wagner, 2012: FUSION OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS TO CREATE AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE DATA RECORD ON SOIL MOISTURE
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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ESA CCI Soil Moisture project website
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Gruber, A., Dorigo, W. A., Crow, W., Wagner W. (2017). Triple Collocation-Based Merging of Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. PP. 1-13. 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2734070
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Liu, Y.Y., Dorigo, W.A., Parinussa, R.M., de Jeu, R.A.M. , Wagner, W., McCabe, M.F., Evans, J.P., van Dijk, A.I.J.M. (2012). Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals, Remote Sensing of Environment, 123, 280-297, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.014
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Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.2 Executive Summary
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Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.2 Soil Moisture Retrievals from Passive Microwave Sensors
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Product User Guide
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Product Specification Document (PSD) D1.2.1 Version 4.2
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Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.2 Active Soil Moisture Retrievals
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Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.2 Merging Active and Passive Soil Moisture Retrievals
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- 3a8a94c3fa464d68b6d70df291afd457 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2024-08-12T23:48:09
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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