SMOS-IC v2

The SMOS-IC v2 product includes both a soil moisture (SM) and a L-band vegetation optical depth (L-VOD) data set which are currently at the basis of several studies evaluating the impact of climate and anthropogenic activities on aboveground carbon stocks. Since the release of the first version, the algorithm has been significantly changed in support to key applications. It has a spatial resolution is around 0.25° and a daily temporal resolution. All the details concerning the SMOS-IC v2 product can be found in: Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Xiaojun Li, Frédéric Frappart, Lei Fan, Amen Al-Yaari, Gabrielle De Lannoy, Xiangzhuo Liu, Mengjia Wang, Erwan Le Masson, Christophe Moisy, SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 254, 2021, 112238, ISSN 0034-4257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112238. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425720306118)