Data Product Description

Products

Three ECV soil moisture products are provided (click to obtain related ATBD document)

• A merged product created from all active data sets 
• A merged product created from all passive data sets
• A product created from combined active and passive products

A Product Specification Document (PSD) provides information on variables available in the product and available ancillary data.

Licencing

• Licencing conditions follow the principles of openness and transparency wherever applicable. All ECV data products resulting from the project are freely accessible.
   

Citing the data

• Gruber, A., Scanlon, T., van der Scalie, R., Wagner, W., Dorigo, W. (2019), Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology, Earth System Science Data, 11, 717-739, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-717-2019.
• Gruber, A., Dorigo, W. Crow, W., & Wagner, W. (2017). Triple collocation-based merging of satellite soil moisture retrievals. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1-13. DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2017.2734070
• Dorigo, W.A., Wagner, W., Albergel, C., Albrecht, F., Balsamo, G., Brocca, L., Chung, D., Ertl, M., Forkel, M., Gruber, A., Haas, E., Hamer, P. D., Hirschi, M., Ikonen, J., de Jeu, R., Kidd, R., Lahoz, W., Liu, Y. Y.,Miralles, D., Mistelbauer, T., Nicolai-Shaw, N., Parinussa, R., Pratola, C., Reimer, C., van der Schalie, R., Seneviratne, S. I. Smolander, T., Lecomte, P. (2017). ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions, Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.001.