ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): 'Active' Product, Version 02.1

The Soil Moisture CCI 'Active' dataset is one of the three datasets created as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture Essential Climate Variable (ECV) CCI project. The product has been created by fusing scatterometer soil moisture products, derived from the instruments AMI-WS and ASCAT. 'Passive' and 'Combined' products have also been created. The 'Passive' product is a fusion of radiometer data acquired by the SMMR, SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat, and AMSR2 satellite instruments. The 'Combined Product' is then a blended product based on the former two data sets.

The v02.1 Active product, provided as global daily images in NetCDF-4 classic file format, presents a global coverage of surface soil moisture at a spatial resolution of 0.25 degrees. It covers the period 1991-08-05 to 2013-12-31 and is expressed in percent of saturation [%]. For information regarding the theoretical and algorithmic base of the product, please see the Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document version 2.0 or the paper by Wagner 2012, both available in the documentation section. An overview of all known errors of the dataset is provided in the Comprehensive Error Characterization Report. Other additional reference documents and information relating to the dataset can also be found on the CCI Soil Moisture project web site or within the Product Specification Document.

The data set should be cited using all three following references:

1. Liu, Y. Y., W. A. Dorigo, et al. (2012). "Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals." Remote Sensing of Environment 123: 280-297.

2. Liu, Y. Y., Parinussa, R. M., Dorigo, W. A., De Jeu, R. A. M., Wagner, W., van Dijk, A. I. J. M., McCabe, M. F., Evans, J. P. (2011). Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15, 425-436

3. Wagner, W., W. Dorigo, R. de Jeu, D. Fernandez, J. Benveniste, E. Haas, M. Ertl (2012). Fusion of active and passive microwave observations to create an Essential Climate Variable data record on soil moisture. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (ISPRS Annals), Volume I-7, XXII ISPRS Congress, Melbourne, Australia, 25 August-1 September 2012, 315-321

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2018-06-07T15:51:51

Dataset Reference Date (): 2018-06-07T15:51:51

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/515df65d974541df82740062974212aa

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 515df65d974541df82740062974212aa

Unavailable - Wagner, Wolfgang ( author )

Unavailable - Dorigo, Wouter ( author )

Unavailable - Chung, D. ( author )

Unavailable - Gruber, A. ( author )

Unavailable - Hahn, S. ( author )

Unavailable - Kidd, R. ( author )

Unavailable - Liu, Y. Y. ( author )

Unavailable - Mistelbauer, T. ( author )

Unavailable - Parinussa, R. ( author )

Unavailable - Paulik, C ( author )

Unavailable - Reimer, C. ( author )

Unavailable - Van der Schalie, R. ( author )

Unavailable - De Jeu, R. ( author )

Unavailable - Melzer, T. ( author )

Unavailable - Vreugdenhil, M. ( author )

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Keywords

soil moisture
day
AMI-SCAT
ERS-1
ERS-2
ERS
Vienna University of Technology
VU University Amsterdam
Level 3S
ASCAT
Level 3
surface soil moisture degree of saturation absolute
Metop-A
ACTIVE
Metop
ESA
Soil Moisture
CCI
Active

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

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Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

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Other constraints: Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_soilmoisture_terms_and_conditions.pdf . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

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Begin date: 1991-08-04T23:00:00

End date: 2013-12-31T23:59:59

Code: WGS 84

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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Resource Locator: Soil Moisture Retrieval from Active Microwave Sensors: Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document Version 2.0
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Resource Locator: Wagner, 2012: FUSION OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS TO CREATE AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE DATA RECORD ON SOIL MOISTURE
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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data were processed by the ESA CCI Soil Moisture project team and transferred to CEDA for the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.

This data forms part of the v02.1 Soil Moisture dataset (doi:10.5285/f4f77c55fd304ada9bfe2195927a053b. http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/f4f77c55fd304ada9bfe2195927a053b )

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Parent identifier: ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Version 02.1 data collection f4f77c55fd304ada9bfe2195927a053b

Resource type: dataset

Metadata Date: 2023-01-26T02:02:10

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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