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

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

The following three citations are compulsory with the use of the dataset:

• 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.