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Soil Moisture/Water Content Data Access and Tools

NASA has soil moisture and water content datasets that help researchers characterize the condition of soil around the world. Access a range of data and data tools such as the Soil Moisture Visualizer, Crop Condition and Soil Moisture Analytics (Crop-CASMA), and AppEEARS to make the most of soil moisture data.

Soil Moisture/Water Content Datasets

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Dataset Sort descending	Version	Platform	Instrument	Temporal Extent	Spatial Extent	Spatial Resolution	Data Format
Global Data Set of Derived Soil Properties, 0.5-Degree Grid (ISRIC-WISE)	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1950-01-01 to 1995-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		ASCII Grid
Global Distribution of Plant-Extractable Water Capacity of Soil (Dunne)	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1996-01-01 to 1996-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		multiple
Global Forest Ecosystem Structure and Function Data For Carbon Balance Research	1	NOAA-14	AVHRR	1897-01-01 to 2006-12-31	N: 67.36 S: -42.87 E: 172.75 W: -159.5		Shapefile
Global Gridded Surfaces of Selected Soil Characteristics (IGBP-DIS)	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1950-01-01 to 1996-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		ASCII Grid
Global Soil Data Products CD-ROM Contents (IGBP-DIS)	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1995-01-01 to 1996-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		Binary
Global Soil Profile Data (ISRIC-WISE)	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1950-01-01 to 1995-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		multiple
GPM Ground Validation Duke Soil Moisture IPHEx	1	GROUND STATIONS	INFRARED THERMOMETERS, TEMPERATURE PROBES, THERMOMETERS	2014-02-27 to 2014-10-17	N: 36.5193 S: 35.3731 E: -81.1315 W: -83.5905		ASCII, Binary, Excel, PDF, Word
GPM GROUND VALIDATION ENVIRONMENT CANADA (EC) PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER AND SOIL MOISTURE-TEMPERATURE DATA GCPEX	1	GROUND STATIONS	RADIOMETERS, THERMISTORS, WCR, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE	2011-12-05 to 2012-03-03	N: 44.2432 S: 44.2232 E: -79.7706 W: -79.7906		Excel
GPM GROUND VALIDATION OKLAHOMA CLIMATOLOGICAL SURVEY MESONET MC3E	1	MESONET	APS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, RAIN GAUGES, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE	2011-04-22 to 2011-06-06	N: 37 S: 33.28 E: -94 W: -103		ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION SATELLITE SIMULATED ORBITS C3VP V1	1	CRM	DPR, GMI	2007-01-20 to 2007-01-23	N: 75 S: 34 E: 23 W: 25		netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION SATELLITE SIMULATED ORBITS LPVEX V1	1	CRM	DPR, GMI	2010-09-21 to 2010-10-21	N: 75 S: 34 E: 25 W: 23		netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION SATELLITE SIMULATED ORBITS MC3E V1	1	CRM	DPR, GMI	2011-04-25 to 2011-05-21	N: 43 S: 28 E: -91 W: -121		netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION SATELLITE SIMULATED ORBITS TWP-ICE V1	1	CRM	DPR, GMI	2006-01-23 to 2006-02-06	N: -10 S: -25 E: 140 W: 125		netCDF-3
GPM Ground Validation USDA ARS Soil Moisture IFloodS V1	1	GROUND STATIONS	PROBES, RAIN GAUGES	2013-04-16 to 2013-06-04	N: 42.5546 S: 42.3183 E: -93.2108 W: -93.5991		ASCII, Excel
High Mountain Asia LIS Model Terrestrial Hydrological Parameters V001	1	MODELS	NOT APPLICABLE	2003-02-01 to 2018-01-31	N: 40.875 S: 20.875 E: 100.875 W: 66.875		netCDF-4, PNG
Hourly Soil Moisture Logger Data, Alberta and Alaska, 2017-2021	1	FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS	SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE	2017-07-24 to 2021-07-29	N: 69.6336 S: 56.6564 E: -115.112 W: -148.811		CSV
ISLSCP II ECMWF Near-Surface Meteorology Parameters	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1985-01-01 to 1998-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		ASCII Grid
ISLSCP II Reanalysis Near-Surface Meteorology Data	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		ASCII Grid
Land Surface Atmospheric Boundary Interaction Product L3 V1(LANDMET)	1	LANDMET	NOT APPLICABLE	1998-01-01 to 2007-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	1 Kilometers x 1 Kilometers
Land Surface Model (LSM 1.0) for Ecological, Hydrological, Atmospheric Studies	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1996-01-15 to 1996-01-15	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		multiple
LBA Regional Derived Soil Properties, 0.5-Deg (ISRIC-WISE)	1	FIELD INVESTIGATION	PH METERS	1950-01-01 to 1995-12-31	N: 10 S: -25 E: -30 W: -85		Binary
LBA-ECO CD-03 Flux-Meteorological Data, km 77 Pasture Site, Para, Brazil: 2000-2005	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	2000-09-01 to 2006-01-01	N: -3.0202 S: -3.0202 E: -54.8942 W: -54.8942		CSV
LBA-ECO CD-03 Mesoscale Meteorological Data, Santarem Region, Para, Brazil: 1998-2006	1	METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS	THERMISTORS, TDR, RAIN GAUGES, PRESSURE PROBE, WIND VANES, PYRANOMETERS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, ANEMOMETERS, THERMOMETERS	1998-08-20 to 2006-12-31	N: -3.3502 S: -3.3502 E: -54.924 W: -54.924		CSV
LBA-ECO CD-04 Meteorological and Flux Data, km 83 Tower Site, Tapajos National Forest	1	FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, FIELD INVESTIGATION	SONIC ANEMOMETER, IRGA, PYRANOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, NET RADIOMETERS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, THERMOCOUPLES	2000-07-01 to 2004-03-12	N: -3.017 S: -3.017 E: -54.9707 W: -54.9707		CSV
LBA-ECO CD-04 Soil Moisture Data, km 83 Tower Site, Tapajos National Forest, Brazil	1	FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, FIELD INVESTIGATION	RAIN GAUGES, TDR	2001-12-31 to 2003-12-17	N: -3.017 S: -3.017 E: -54.9707 W: -54.9707		CSV

Featured Observation Method: SMAP

The Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) platform is a satellite that measures the surface moisture and freeze-thaw state of soil around the world approximately every three days. SMAP data contributes to understanding regional water cycles, ecosystem productivity, and natural processes involving water, energy, and carbon. SMAP's high-resolution data are helpful for weather, flood, and drought forecasting, and predicting agricultural productivity.

16 New SMAP Products Now Available

GIBS now has Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) layers available for soil moisture and temperature, snow mass, heterotrophic respiration, and more.

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Don't Pass the Salt! NASA's Salinity Mission Continues with SMAP

This webinar will compare sea surface salinity data collected by the Aquarius and SMAP missions. We will showcase data visualization and data access tools available through NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center.

SMAP's rotating golden antenna functions like a satellite dish to focus radio waves from Earth's surface into a collector on the spacecraft

Rounding up Data with a Golden Lasso: Getting Soil Moisture Data from SMAP to DAAC

NASA's SMAP team turns raw satellite data into more than a dozen data products for data users around the world.

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ASF Providing SMAP Ground Support, Data Distribution

Feature article describing NASA's SMAP mission and the roles that ASF DAAC will play with distributing the SAR data.

Soil Moisture/Water Content Data Tools

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Vertex	Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.	Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, Subsetting

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