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STAR Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) Portal - Near-Real Time Viewer



Products in the SMOPS Viewer:

  • Blended:
    SMOPS Blended soil moisture product.
    (2015 - Present) - Browse images
  • AMSR2:
    Soil moisture from GCOMW AMSR2.
    (2015 - Present) - Browse images
  • ASCAT-B:
    Soil moisture from Metop-B ASCAT.
    (2015 - Present) - Browse images
  • ASCAT-C:
    Soil moisture from Metop-C ASCAT.
    (2023 - Present) - Browse images
  • GMI:
    Soil moisture from GPM Microwave Imager.
    (2017 - Present) - Browse images
  • NSMAP:
    Soil moisture from NASA SMAP.
    (2017 - Present) - Browse images
  • SMAP:
    Soil moisture from NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP).
    (2017 - Present) - Browse images


Products for download only

  • ASCAT-A:
    Gridded historical soil moisture data from the Advanced SCATometer (ASCAT) instrument onboard the EUMETSAT MetOp-A satellite, provided by SMOPS.
    (2015 - 2023) - Browse images
  • NSMOS:
    Near real-time SMOS soil moisture from SMOPS Single Channel Retrieval (SCR) algorithm.
    (2015 - 2023) - Browse images
  • SMOS:
    Gridded ESA's SMOS soil moisture data provided by SMOPS.
    (2015 - 2023) - Browse images


Soil moisture is expressed in Volumetric Soil Moisture Content [m3 water/m3 soil] (see Documents for details).

Soil Moisture Maps

Data Type: Blended; Date: 07/06/2026

Daily

Soil moisture map: data type:Blended, Date: 07/06/2026 - Daily

6 Hour - 00

Soil moisture map: data type:Blended, Date: 07/06/2026 - 6 Hour 00

6 Hour - 06

Soil moisture map: data type:Blended, Date: 07/06/2026 - 6 Hour 06

6 Hour - 12

Soil moisture map: data type:Blended, Date: 07/06/2026 - 6 Hour 12

6 Hour - 18

Soil moisture map: data type:Blended, Date: 07/06/2026 - 6 Hour 18