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An operational global L-band soil moisture and vegetation optical depth dataset from optimized 40° SMOS brightness temperatures for 2010-2024
zanpin, Z.; Li, X.; Frappart, F.; De Lannoy, G.; Jagdhuber, T.; Peng, J.; Fan, L.; Ma, H.; Karthikeyan, L.; Liu, X.; Wang, M.; Zhao, L.; liu, Y.; Wigneron, J. (2026). An operational global L-band soil moisture and vegetation optical depth dataset from optimized 40° SMOS brightness temperatures for 2010-2024. ESSD 18(6): 4047-4073. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4047-2026
In: Earth System Science Data. Copernicus: Göttingen. ISSN 1866-3508; e-ISSN 1866-3516, meer
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| Author keywords |
microwave emission;data sets;calibration;biomass;model |
| Auteurs | | Top |
- zanpin, Z.
- Li, X.
- Frappart, F.
- De Lannoy, G., meer
- Jagdhuber, T.
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- Peng, J.
- Fan, L.
- Ma, H.
- Karthikeyan, L.
- Liu, X.
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- Wang, M.
- Zhao, L.
- liu, Y.
- Wigneron, J.
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| Abstract |
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission delivers the first multi-angular L-band observations for retrieving global soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (VOD), two critical variables for understanding terrestrial water and carbon cycles. However, the combined effects of non-identical fields of view and aliasing in multi-angular SMOS brightness temperature (TB) observations can introduce noise and biases when the TBs are averaged to a nominal incidence angle, as done in the SMOS L3 dataset, thereby degrading land parameter retrievals. To address this issue, an optimized SMOS TB dataset was initially produced at a fixed 40 degrees incidence angle, consistent with the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission. We then developed the first SMOS mono-angular SM and VOD products designed to achieve performance comparable to SMAP and improved relative to conventional multi-angle SMOS retrievals. The 40 degrees TB optimization was performed using the L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) model, and the inversion relied on the SMAP-INRAE-BORDEAUX (SMAP-IB) algorithm, yielding a global 40 degrees SMOS TB record and associated SM and VOD products for 2010-2024 at 25 km spatial resolution, collectively referred to as SMOS-IB. Results showed that the optimized 40 degrees TB reached a performance level comparable to SMAP and improved relative to SMOS-L3, both in its sensitivity to in-situ SM from the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) and in the reduction of global pixel-scale noise. When multiple evaluation metrics are considered, the SMOS-IB SM and VOD data, benefiting from the use of the optimized TB as input and a newly optimized soil roughness (Hr) parameterization, showed improved performance compared with those derived from SMOS L3 40 degrees TB or from the multi-angular SMOS products. The SMOS-IB TB, SM and VOD products can be used for L-band algorithm development and SMAP harmonization, global drought monitoring, and studies of vegetation water and biomass dynamics. SMOS-IB is publicly available at 10.5281/zenodo.17647385 (Xing et al., 2025). |
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