Drought, EO-Atlas topic

Drought monitoring combines soil moisture, vegetation health anomalies, land-surface temperature, evapotranspiration, and water-level or storage proxies to characterize extent, severity, anomalies, and trends.^[1]^[2]^[3]

SMAP measures and maps soil moisture and freeze/thaw state and supports improved predictions of drought and related water-cycle hazards.^[1]^[4]

NOAA vegetation-health products use satellite-derived greenness and thermal condition indices as proxies for vegetation stress and drought monitoring.^[2]

Agricultural drought is tied to persistent soil-moisture deficit, while hydrological drought can require water-level and storage indicators beyond vegetation stress.^[3]^[4]

What's available today

3 data products and 79 sensors. Start with the most-used; switch to Filter for the full catalogue.

3 Data products

0 Services

79 Sensors

3 open

Data products

Open Copernicus Global Land Service Surface Soil Moisture 1 km (SSM1km)

Open SMAP L3 Daily Global Composite Soil Moisture

Open ESA CCI Soil Moisture Combined Product

Advanced Hyperspectral Imager Gaofen-5 (GF-5)

Advanced Microwave Radiometer - Climate Quality Sentinel-6B

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) GCOM-W1 (Shizuku)

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 3 (AMSR3) GOSAT-GW (IBUKI GW)

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) Aqua

AEISS-A KOMPSAT-3A

Antelope DPU —

ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) Terra

AWiFS Resourcesat-2

Carble Remote Sensing for Coffee and Cocoa Supply Chains —

Carbon Mapper Imaging Spectrometer Tanager-1

CBERS-4 Infrared Multispectral Scanner 2 CBERS-4

CBERS-4 Multispectral Camera CBERS-4

CBERS-4 Panchromatic and Multispectral Imager CBERS-4

CBERS-4 Wide Field Imager 2 CBERS-4

CBERS-4A Multispectral CCD Camera CBERS-4A

CBERS-4A Wide Field Imager CBERS-4A

CBERS-4A Wide Swath Panchromatic and Multispectral Camera CBERS-4A

DESIS (DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer) —

Dove Classic Planet Dove

Dove-R Planet Dove

Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) DSCOVR

ECOSTRESS (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station) ECOSTRESS ISS deployment

EnMAP HSI (Hyperspectral Imager) —

FY-4B Advanced Geostationary Radiation Imager FY-4B

GPM Microwave Imager GPM Core Observatory

GRACE-FO Laser Ranging Interferometer (LRI) GRACE-FO

High Resolution Microwave Radiometer Sentinel-6B

HY-2B Microwave Radiometer Imager HY-2B

HY-2B Radar Altimeter HY-2B

HY-2C Calibration Microwave Radiometer HY-2C

HY-2C Radar Altimeter HY-2C

HY-2D Calibration Microwave Radiometer HY-2D

HY-2D Radar Altimeter HY-2D

Hyper-Spectral Imager - 2 Huan Jing-2A

Infrared Multispectral Scanner - 2 Huan Jing-2A

K-band Ranging Instrument (KBR) GRACE

Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)

KMSS High-resolution VIS/IR Radiometer Meteor-M N2-4

LISS-III (Resourcesat) Resourcesat-2

LISS-IV Resourcesat-2

Microwave Radiometer (MWR) Sentinel-3B

MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) —

MSC (KOMPSAT-2) KOMPSAT-2

MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument) —

MSS (KANOPUS) Kanopus-V

MSU-GS Electro-L Imager Electro-L N2

MSU-MR VIS/IR Imaging Radiometer Meteor-M N2-4

MTVZA-GY Imaging/Sounding Microwave Radiometer Meteor-M N2-4

NewSat multispectral camera Satellogic NewSat constellation

OLI (Operational Land Imager) —

OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) —

Panchromatic and Multi-spectral CCD Camera Gaofen-1 (GF-1)

Pléiades HiRI Pleiades-1A

PMS-2 Panchromatic and Multi-spectral CCD Camera Gaofen-2

PMS-3 high-resolution optical sensor SuperView / GaoJing constellation

Poseidon-3C Altimeter Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)

Poseidon-4 SAR Altimeter Sentinel-6B

SAR Interferometer Radar Altimeter (SIRAL) CryoSat-2

Second Generation Global Imager (SGLI) GCOM-C (Shikisai)

SLSTR (Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer) Sentinel-3A

SMAP Radiometer SMAP

Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager Meteosat-10

SSMIS —

SuperDove Planet Dove

SuperSTAR Accelerometer GRACE

Surface Waves Investigation and Monitoring instrument (SWIM) CFOSAT

SWOT Microwave Radiometer Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)

Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter (SRAL) Sentinel-3B

TIRS (Landsat 8 Thermal Infrared Sensor) Landsat 8

VectorSurv Vectorborne Disease Surveillance System —

Verde —

Wide Field Camera Gaofen-1 (GF-1)

Wide View CCD camera - 2 Huan Jing-2A

WSF-M Microwave Imager (MWI) WSF-M1

Zhuhai-1 OHS hyperspectral imager Zhuhai-1 OHS

Sources

[1]NASA SMAP mission overviewagency doc-2026-05-27
[2]Drought.gov Soil Moisture Active Passive data toolagency doc-2026-05-27
[3]NOAA STAR Global Vegetation Health Productsagency doc-2026-05-27
[4]NASA SMAP decade of global water-cycle monitoringagency doc2025-08-012026-05-27

How to cite this page

Plain text

Drought. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V., last reviewed 2026-05-27. https://eo-atlas.org/topics/drought (CC BY 4.0)

BibTeX

@misc{eoatlas:topics:drought,
  title = {Drought},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Last reviewed 2026-05-27. CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/topics/drought}
}