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sport-lis-vsm0_100cm-percentile·dataset

Soil Moisture in the Top Meter of Ground

0-100 cm Volumetric Soil Moisture (%)
hydrosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Shows how much water is held in the soil column from the surface down to one meter deep. It captures the actual moisture available throughout the root zone.

How it's made. Made by NASA's SPoRT Center using a real-time Land Information System model that simulates land and soil conditions.

How & where you'd use it. Helps monitor drought, flooding risk, and conditions for agriculture and fire.

What's measured

sportlisvsm0100cmpercentile

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2016-09-06 → 2016-11-29
  • Spatial extent-124.94, 25.06, -67.07, 52.93
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Follow rainfall, floods and surface-water extent
  • Track soil moisture and the onset of drought
  • Monitor lakes, rivers and groundwater storage
Official description

The NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center has developed a Real-Time Land Information System (LIS). The Volumetric Soil Moisture product represents the actual moisture in a soil column from 0-100cm in depth.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("sport-lis-vsm0_100cm-percentile")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).