Abstract:<p><span>The International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN, </span><span></span><span>) is an international cooperation to establish and maintain an open-source global data hosting facility, providing in-situ soil moisture data as well as accompanying soil variables. This database is an essential means for validating and improving global satellite soil moisture products as well as land surface -, climate- , and hydrological models.… Show more
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