NEW CATDS Soil Moisture level 3 is now available
Arnaud Mialon, Stéphane Tarot, Philippe Richaume, Jérôme Detoc, Christophe Suere and Yann Kerr
Level 3 Soil moisture version 3.3 is now available from the CATDS ftp (see below for login details) .
This product has significantly improved since the last version archived and is really worth a try!

The grey areas are either ice covered or significantly impacted by RFI.
The recent updates include
– use of the latest ESA level 2 (version 7), with Bircher et al. 2016 organic soil dielectric constant model and several other improvements described in an earlier post (realistic parameters instead of the preflight values for opacity and single scattering albedo for instance);
– use of IGBP land cover classification;
– modification of the constraint on Tau for the multi-orbit retrievals
– reorganisation of the multi-orbit configuration sto reduce teh time lag (within 1 to 2 days versus 7 days for the previous version);
– simplified product. This means that its content is revisited and contains less fields. Two fields (fi_Prob, Ratio_RFI) help the users to filter the SM retrievals that are affected by RFI. A threshold of 0.15 – 0.2 is recommended (i.e. discard SM with RFI> 0.2).

Data access
ftp.ifremer.fr
login : ext-catds-cpdc pwd : catds2010
Note that most browsers do not allow to load ftp pages anymore, please use an ftp client (filezilla)
Data description
The data are split into 2 directories : RE07 (from 2010 to early 2021) and OPER (from early 2021 up to now).
A complete description of the product content is detailed in the document Data Description Produt
SO-TN-CB-CA-0001.4a.pdf
And the updated ATBD
SO-TN-CBSA-GS-0029_v3.pdf
Contact: yann.kerr@cesbio.cnes.fr
Documentation
https://www.catds.fr/Resources/Documentation
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