ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): 'Active' Product, Version 02.2

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, and AMSR2 satellite instruments. The 'Combined Product' is then a blended product based on the former two data sets.



The v02.2 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 2014-12-31 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. 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. 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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2016-03-08T13:54:14
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2016-03-08T13:54:14
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/663a557e848a4a9f8f0d205c6b3cb7f6
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 663a557e848a4a9f8f0d205c6b3cb7f6
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Wagner, Wolfgang

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Dorigo, Wouter

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Chung, D.

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Gruber, A.

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Hahn, S.

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Kidd, R.

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Liu, Y. Y.

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Mistelbauer, T.

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Parinussa, R.

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Paulik, C

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Reimer, C.

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Van der Schalie, R.

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De Jeu, R.

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Melzer, T.

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Vreugdenhil, M.

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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CCI Open Data Portal

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pointofContact

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Dataset
Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • orthoimagery
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_soilmoisture_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. 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
1991-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2013-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
Name Version

Data is in NetCDF -4
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/663a557e848a4a9f8f0d205c6b3cb7f6

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/soil_moisture/data/daily_files/ACTIVE/v02.2

DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/15/425/2011/hess-15-425-2011.html

Liu et al., 2011 Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/soil_moisture/docs/ESA_CCI_SM_Product_Specification_Document_2.5.pdf

ECV Soil Moisture Product Specification Document version 2.5
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.014

Liu et al., 2012 Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_209402.pdf

Wagner, 2012: FUSION OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS TO CREATE AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE DATA RECORD ON SOIL MOISTURE

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Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/soil_moisture/docs/CCI2_Soil_Moisture_D3.3.0_Product_Users_Guide_1.0.pdf

Product User Guide
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/soil_moisture/docs/v02.2/CCI2_Soil_Moisture_DL2.1_ATBD_v2.2_01_Executive_Summary.pdf

Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) Executive Summary
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/soil_moisture/metadata/sample_images/ESACCI-SOILMOISTURE-L3S-SSMS-ACTIVE-20080401000000-fv02.1.png

Sample Image
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/soil_moisture/docs/v02.2/CCI2_Soil_Moisture_DL2.1_ATBD_v2.2_02_active.pdf

Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD): Active Soil Moisture Retrievals
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/projects/soil-moisture/

ESA CCI Soil Moisture project website
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int

ESA Climate Change Initiative webpage
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Dataset

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
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 dataset forms part of the v02.2 Soil Moisture dataset (doi:10.5285/3729b3fbbb434930bf65d82f9b00111c. http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/3729b3fbbb434930bf65d82f9b00111c )

Metadata

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663a557e848a4a9f8f0d205c6b3cb7f6 XML
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Parent identifier
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Version 02.2 data collection

3729b3fbbb434930bf65d82f9b00111c
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-02-15T03:07:08
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3
Metadata author
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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