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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5749-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Review article
| 
09 Nov 2021
Review article |
| 09 Nov 2021
| 09 Nov 2021
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Irene Himmelbauer
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Daniel Aberer
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Lukas Schremmer
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Ivana Petrakovic
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Luca Zappa
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang Preimesberger
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Angelika Xaver
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Frank Annor
Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
Water Management Department, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
Jonas Ardö
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Dennis Baldocchi
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Marco Bitelli
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Günter Blöschl
Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Heye Bogena
Institute of Bio- and Geosciences Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich, Germany
Luca Brocca
Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council of Italy, Perugia, Italy
Jean-Christophe Calvet
CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS – Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Toulouse, France
J. Julio Camarero
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Giorgio Capello
Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility, National Research Council of Italy, Torino, Italy
Minha Choi
Environment and Remote Sensing Laboratory, School of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Michael C. Cosh
Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, USDA–Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Beltsville, MD, USA
Nick van de Giesen
Water Management Department, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
Istvan Hajdu
PlantTech Research Institute, Tauranga, New Zealand
Jaakko Ikonen
Space and Earth Observation Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Karsten H. Jensen
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kasturi Devi Kanniah
Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Ileen de Kat
VanderSat B. V., Haarlem, the Netherlands
Gottfried Kirchengast
Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC), University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Pankaj Kumar Rai
Department of Biotechnology, Invertis University, Bareilly, India
Jenni Kyrouac
Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
Kristine Larson
Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Suxia Liu
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Sino-Danish Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Alexander Loew
Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Munich, Germany
deceased, 2 July 2017
Mahta Moghaddam
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
José Martínez Fernández
Instituto Hispano Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, CIALE, Universidad de Salamanca, Villamayor, Spain
Cristian Mattar Bader
Laboratory for Analysis of the Biosphere, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Renato Morbidelli
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Jan P. Musial
Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (IGiK), Remote Sensing Centre, Warsaw, Poland
Elise Osenga
Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI), Basalt, CO, USA
Michael A. Palecki
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, USA
Thierry Pellarin
CNRS – Centre national de la recherche scientifique, LTHE, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
George P. Petropoulos
Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Isabella Pfeil
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Jarrett Powers
Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Alan Robock
Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Christoph Rüdiger
Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Udo Rummel
Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg – Richard-Aßmann-Observatorium, DWD, Lindenberg, Germany
Michael Strobel
USDA-NRCS National Water and Climate Center, Portland, OR, USA
Zhongbo Su
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
Ryan Sullivan
Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
Torbern Tagesson
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Andrej Varlagin
A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Mariette Vreugdenhil
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Jeffrey Walker
Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Jun Wen
College of Atmospheric Sciences, Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China
Fred Wenger
Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway
Jean Pierre Wigneron
MOST, ISPA, INRAE Bordeaux Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Mel Woods
Social Digital, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Kun Yang
Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Yijian Zeng
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
Xiang Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Marek Zreda
Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Stephan Dietrich
International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change ICWRGC (UNESCO), Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany
Alexander Gruber
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Peter van Oevelen
International GEWEX Project Office, Washington, DC, USA
Wolfgang Wagner
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Klaus Scipal
ESRIN, European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy
Matthias Drusch
ESTEC, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, the Netherlands
Roberto Sabia
ESRIN, European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy
Data sets
Validation of ESA CCI SM combined v05.2 vs ISMN 20191211 global - without anomalies and without ISMN flags D. Aberer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4288919
Validation of ESA CCI SM combined v05.2 vs ISMN 20191211 global - without Anomalies and ISMN flagged D. Aberer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4288921
Validation of ESA CCI SM combined v05.2 vs ISMN 20191211 global - Anomalies and no ISMN flags D. Aberer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4288915
Validation of ESA CCI SM combined v05.2 vs ISMN 20191211 global - Anomalies and ISMN flagged D. Aberer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4288913
Validation of ESA CCI SM combined v04.7 vs ESA CCI SM combined v05.2 vs ISMN 20191211 global T. Scanlon https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4120205
Validation of C3S v202012 vs C3S v201912 vs ISMN 20210131 global W. Preimesberger https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4736927
TUW-GEO/ismn: v1.1.0 W. Preimesberger, P. Buttinger, C. Paulik, T. Scanlon, D. Aberer, M. Schmitzer, D. Baum, L. Zappa, S. Hahn, and B. Crezee https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5095509
A 10-Year Dataset of Basic Meteorology and Soil Properties in Central Sudan J. Ardö https://doi.org/10.7167/2013/297973/dataset
Model code and software
TUW-GEO/flagit D. Aberer, A. Xaver, and W. Preimesberger https://github.com/TUW-GEO/flagit
Short summary
The International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) is a community-based open-access data portal for soil water measurements taken at the ground and is accessible at https://ismn.earth. Over 1000 scientific publications and thousands of users have made use of the ISMN. The scope of this paper is to inform readers about the data and functionality of the ISMN and to provide a review of the scientific progress facilitated through the ISMN with the scope to shape future research and operations.
The International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) is a community-based open-access data portal for...
