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ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): 'Active' Product, Version 04.2
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, AMSR2, and SMOS satellite instruments. The 'Combined Product' is then a blended product based on the former two data sets.
The v04.2 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 2016-12-31 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. 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 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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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2018-06-25T14:07:45
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2018-06-25T14:07:45
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / f77cbcfbb6214448aebaa2119d829692
- Identifier
- alternative.identifier / esacci.SOILMOISTURE.day.L3S.SSMS.multi-sensor.multi-platform.ACTIVE.04-2.r1.v20180618
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
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- dataset
- Keywords
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- orthoimagery
- Limitations on Public Access
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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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- Spatial representation type
- grid
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 1991-08-04T23:00:00
- End date
- 2016-12-31T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
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Data are in NetCDF format
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Data are in NetCDF format
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Product Specification Document (PSD) D1.2.1 Version 4.2
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Product User Guide
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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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Sample Image
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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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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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ESA CCI Soil Moisture project website
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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 Active Soil Moisture Retrievals
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Product Specification Document (PSD) D1.2.1 Version 4.2
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Product User Guide
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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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Sample Image
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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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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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ESA CCI Soil Moisture project website
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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 Active Soil Moisture Retrievals
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Data were processed by the ESA CCI Soil Moisture project team and transferred to CEDA for the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.
This dataset forms part of the v04.2 Soil Moisture dataset (doi: 10.5285/3a8a94c3fa464d68b6d70df291afd457 https://doi.org/10.5285/3a8a94c3fa464d68b6d70df291afd457)
Metadata
- File identifier
- f77cbcfbb6214448aebaa2119d829692 XML
- 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 04.2 data collection 3a8a94c3fa464d68b6d70df291afd457
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-03-24T01:47:24
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
