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ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Version 02.1 data collection
Soil Moisture data (version 02.1) 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 the AMI-WS and ASCAT satellite instruments and for the 'Passive' product from the instruments SMMR, SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat, and AMSR2. 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 2014-12-31 and the Active product covering 1991-08-05 to 2014-12-31. 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) or the paper by Wagner 2012, both available in linked documentation. 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 all three references as follows:
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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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2018-06-22T13:57:41
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2018-06-22T13:57:41
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / f4f77c55fd304ada9bfe2195927a053b
- Identifier
- doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/f4f77c55fd304ada9bfe2195927a053b
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- ESA
- Soil Moisture
- CCI
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- 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
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1978-11-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2013-12-31T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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Liu et al., 2012 Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals
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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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- Resource Locator
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ESA CCI Soil Moisture project website
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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Liu et al., 2012 Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Liu et al., 2011 Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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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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- Quality Scope
- series
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- f4f77c55fd304ada9bfe2195927a053b XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Resource type
- series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Metadata Date
- 2022-11-25T02:55:37
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
