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ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Ancillary data used for the "Active", "Passive" and "Combined" products, Version 04.2
These ancillary datasets were used in the production of the "Active", "Passive" and "Combined" soil moisture data products, created as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project. The set of ancillary datasets include datasets of Average Vegetation Optical Depth data from AMSR-E, Soil Porosity, Topographic Complexity and Wetland fraction, as well as a Land Mask. This version of the ancillary datasets were used in the production of the v04.2 Soil Moisture CCI data.
The "Active" "Passive" and "Combined" soil moisture products which they were used in the development of are fusions of scatterometer and radiometer soil moisture products, derived from the AMI-WS, ASCAT, SMMR, SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat, AMSR2 and SMOS satellite instruments. To access these products or for further details on them please see their dataset records. Additional reference documents and information relating to them can also be found on the CCI Soil Moisture project website.
Soil moisture CCI data 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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- Date (Publication)
- 2018-06-25T14:49:20
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-06-25T14:49:20
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 55bff4add65d489e86c195edbae8f970
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- dataset Dataset
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- soil moisture
- ESA
- Soil Moisture
- CCI
- Ancillary
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
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- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- EnglishEnglish
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2002-06-30T23:00:00
- End date
- 2011-10-04T22:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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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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ESA CCI Soil Moisture project website
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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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Product User Guide
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Product Specification Document (PSD) D1.2.1 Version 4.2
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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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Liu et al., 2011 Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals
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Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.2 Executive Summary
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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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)
- File identifier
- 55bff4add65d489e86c195edbae8f970 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Version 04.2 data collection 3a8a94c3fa464d68b6d70df291afd457
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:16:02
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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