Final project deliverables (Phase 1)

The first project phase ended in May 2023. All outcomes of this phase can be found in the following deliverables:

• ESR - Executive Summary Report
• FR - Final Report

International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) research and development

Research and developments regarding the quality control and flagging mechanisms applied to in situ measurements of the ISMN, as well the development of a data versioning system with DOI capability for the ISMN are described in the following deliverable:

• DT1-1 ISMN QC/Flagging R&D

Fiducial Reference Measurements

Protocols and procedures that have been developed to calculate (SI-)traceable FRM uncertainty budgets and to identify a set of reliable FRM “super-sites” from existing ISMN networks are described in the following deliverable:

• DT2-1 FRM Protocols and Procedures for Soil Moisture

Quality Assurance for Soil Moisture (QA4SM) development and evolution

The following deliverables document all improvements made to the QA4SM online validation platform (https://qa4sm.eu/) as well as contain a detailed software user manual:

• DT3-1 QA4SM Software User Manual
• DT3-2 QA4SM Service Impact Assessment Report
• DT4-2 QA4SM Evolution Test Plan
• DT4-3 QA4SM Verification Report

SMOS case studies

Validation case studies for the SMOS mission that have been conducted as part of the FRM4SM project are documented in the following deliverables:

• DT5-1 SMOS Validation and Committed Areas
• DT5-2 SMOS Validation in Organic Soils
• DT5-3 Sampling, Representativeness, and Scale Errors