Skip to main content

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

Filters
Dataset Sort descending Version Platform Instrument Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
NAMMA SENEGAL RADIOSONDE AND TOWER FLUX DATA V1 1 GROUND STATIONS, RADIOSONDES NET RADIOMETERS, GPS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, PRESSURE SENSORS, TELEMETER, TEMPERATURE SENSORS 2006-08-19 to 2006-09-17

N: 15.5 S: 13.91 E: 17.09 W: -17.97

ASCII
NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Land Information System (LIS) 1 COMPUTERS 1981-01-01 to 2025-12-31

N: 52.915 S: 24.396 E: -66.885 W: -124.925

ASCII, Binary, GRIB1, GRIB2
NASMo-TiAM 250m 16-day North America Surface Soil Moisture Dataset 1 COMPUTERS Computer 2002-06-26 to 2020-12-31

N: 82.7193 S: 14.5312 E: -39.9955 W: -180

COG
NCA-LDAS Noah-3.3 Land Surface Model L4 Daily 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NCALDAS_NOAH0125_D) at GES DISC 2.0 Noah-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-02 to 2016-12-31

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NCA-LDAS Noah-3.3 Land Surface Model L4 Trends 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NCALDAS_NOAH0125_Trends) at GES DISC 2.0 Noah-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-10-01 to 2015-09-30

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
Near Real-time SMAP L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 36 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture V107 107 SMAP SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER 2025-06-26 to Present

N: 85.044 S: -85.044 E: 180 W: -180

36 Kilometers x 36 Kilometers HDF5
NISAR Beta Soil Moisture (Version 1) 1 NISAR L-SAR 2025-10-01 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

HDF5, XML, YAML
NLDAS Mosaic Land Surface Model L4 Hourly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_MOS0125_H) at GES DISC 2.0 Mosaic-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-02 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Mosaic Land Surface Model L4 Monthly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_MOS0125_M) at GES DISC 2.0 Mosaic-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.124 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Mosaic Land Surface Model L4 Monthly Climatology 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_MOS0125_MC) at GES DISC 2.0 Mosaic-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1981-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Noah Land Surface Model L4 Hourly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_NOAH0125_H) at GES DISC 2.0 Noah-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-02 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Noah Land Surface Model L4 Monthly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_NOAH0125_M) at GES DISC 2.0 Noah-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS Noah Land Surface Model L4 Monthly Climatology 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_NOAH0125_MC) at GES DISC 2.0 Noah-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1981-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS VIC Land Surface Model L4 Hourly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_VIC0125_H) at GES DISC 2.0 VIC-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-02 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS VIC Land Surface Model L4 Monthly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_VIC0125_M) at GES DISC 2.0 VIC-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NLDAS VIC Land Surface Model L4 Monthly Climatology 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_VIC0125_MC) at GES DISC 2.0 VIC-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1981-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

0.125 Decimal Degrees x 0.125 Decimal Degrees
NRT AMSR2 Unified L2B Half-Orbit 25 km EASE-Grid Surface Soil Moisture Beta V2 2 GCOM-W1 AMSR2 2018-04-11

N: 89.24 S: -89.24 E: 180 W: -180

HDF-EOS5, netCDF-4
PALS/In Situ Multi-Campaign 800 m UTM Grid Brightness Temperature, Backscatter, and Soil Moisture Match-Up V001 1 AIRCRAFT PALS 1999-07-08 to 1999-07-14

N: 35.21 S: 34.91 E: -97.83 W: -98.67

,

N: 41.99 S: 41.92 E: -93.4 W: -93.8

,

N: 39.09 S: 38.95 E: -75.54 W: -76.18

800 Meters x 800 Meters ASCII
Post-fire Recovery of Soil Organic Layer Carbon in Canadian Boreal Forests, 2015-2018 1 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, CHN ANALYZERS, CORING DEVICES 2015-06-11 to 2018-08-24

N: 68.3256 S: 59.7883 E: -104.194 W: -132.671

CSV
Pre-ABoVE: Active Layer Thickness and Soil Water Content, Barrow, Alaska, 2013 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS Computer, GPR 2013-08-10 to 2013-08-15

N: 71.388 S: 71.027 E: -155.772 W: -157.266

CSV
Pre-LBA Anglo-Brazilian Amazonian Climate Observation Study (ABRACOS) Data 1.1 FIELD INVESTIGATION PSYCHROMETERS, ANEMOMETERS 1991-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 5 S: -18 E: -46 W: -75

CSV
SAFARI 2000 Derived Soil Properties, 0.5-Deg (ISRIC-WISE) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION PH METERS 1950-01-01 to 1995-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

multiple
SAFARI 2000 Kalahari Transect CO2, Water Vapor, and Heat Flux, Wet Season 2000 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS TDR, THERMOCOUPLES, SOIL HEAT FLUX TRANSDUCER, INFRARED THERMOMETERS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, SONIC ANEMOMETER, IR CO2 ANALYZER, NET RADIOMETERS, HUMIDITY SENSORS 2000-03-01 to 2000-03-19

N: -15.438 S: -24.164 E: 23.594 W: 21.713

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Meteorological and Flux Tower Measurements in Maun, Botswana, 2000 1 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, FIELD INVESTIGATION PYRANOMETERS, IRGA, PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS, TEMPERATURE PROBES, RTD, ANEMOMETERS, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, RAIN GAUGES, HUMIDITY SENSORS, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, THERMOMETERS 2000-02-01 to 2000-09-30

N: -19.9 S: -19.9 E: 23.55 W: 23.55

Shapefile
SAFARI 2000 Selected Soil Characteristics, 10-km Grid (IGBP-DIS) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1995-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: -5

ASCII

Soil Moisture/Water Content Data Tools

Tool Sort descending Description Services
Vertex Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, Subsetting
SHOWING 1 OF 1

Frequently Asked Questions

Earthdata Forum

Our online forum provides a space for users to browse thousands of FAQs about research needs, data, and data applications. You can also submit new questions for our experts to answer.

Submit Questions to Earthdata Forumand View Expert Responses

Earthdata
Forum