Percent Saturated Surface Soil Moisture

Percent Saturated Surface Soil Moisture is an open dataset from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada with 13 files (ESRI REST, PDF, HTML, GEOTIF); catalogue record updated 2025-10-15. On CanQuery you can follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

This data series represents the volumetric soil moisture (percent saturated soil) for the surface layer (<5 cm). The data is created daily and is averaged for the ISO standard week and month. The data is produced from passive microwave satellite data collected by the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite and converted to soil moisture using version 6.20 of the SMOS soil moisture processor. The data are produced by the European Space Agency and obtained under a Category 1 proposal for Level 2 soil moisture data. The data are gridded to a resolution of 0.25 degrees. Data quality flags have been applied to remove areas where rainfall is present during the acquisition, where snow cover is detected and when Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is above an acceptable threshold.

Publisher

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Resources

13

Catalogue metadata updated

2025-10-15