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ESA CCI Soil Moisture

Climate Change Initiative soil moisture. Daily 0.25° soil moisture from merged satellites since 1978.

Active, passive and combined surface soil moisture merged from more than a dozen microwave sensors. The longest satellite soil moisture record.

Source
European Space Agency, TU Wien
Resolution
0.25°
Data type
Raster
Time span
1978–present
Temporal
Daily
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
NetCDF
Coverage
Global land (-180, -90, 180, 90)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Provider page
climate.esa.int/en/projects/soil-moisture/

Cite as. Dorigo, W., et al. (2017). ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding. Remote Sensing of Environment, 203, 185–215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.001

Access

linkProject page with data access

https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/soil-moisture/

curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/esa-cci-soil-moisture/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record