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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

Dataset Version Sort ascending Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
BOREAS HYD-01 Under Canopy Precipitation Data 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION RAIN GAUGES 1994-05-23 to 1997-06-24

N: 55.93 S: 53.88 E: -98.29 W: -106.2

ASCII
SMAP_L1A_RADAR_METADATA_V001 1 SMAP SAR 2015-02-12 to 2021-11-04

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

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
SiB4 Modeled Global 0.5-Degree Daily Carbon Fluxes and Pools, 2000-2018 1 MODELS Computer 2000-01-01 to 2018-12-31

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

netCDF-4 classic
SMAP-Derived 1-km Downscaled Surface Soil Moisture Product V001 1 SMAP SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER 2015-04-01 to 2024-06-29

N: 86 S: -86 E: 180 W: -180

1 Kilometers x 1 Kilometers GeoTIFF
Arctic Vegetation Plots at Nome, Alaska, 1951 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS BALANCE, PH METERS 1951-07-30 to 1951-08-02

N: 64.629 S: 64.629 E: -165.264 W: -165.264

CSV
Site Averaged Gravimetric Soil Moisture: 1987 (Betts) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1987-05-20 to 1987-11-06

N: 39.1161 S: 38.9753 E: -96.447 W: -96.611

CSV
Biome-BGC: Modeling Effects of Disturbance and Climate (Thornton et al. 2002) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 2002-12-02 to 2002-12-02

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

multiple
Soil Moisture Release Data (FIFE) 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION SOIL PRESSURE PLATE 1989-10-31 to 1989-10-31

N: 39.09 S: 39.05 E: -96.47 W: -96.6

multiple
STS-68_METADATA_GRD 1 STS-68 SIR-C 1994-09-30 to 1994-10-12
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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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