{ "culture": "en-US", "name": "SoilMoistureEastAfrica", "guid": "", "catalogPath": "", "snippet": "The data we are providing is volumetric soil moisture in the top 10 cm of the ground surface (i.e. percent of the soil that has water, so the max will usually be no greater that 50% (0.5)). The data is produced from the NOAH land surface model within NASA's Land Information System (LIS) framework that uses satellite based inputs (see references below). From the desert locusts experts that we have talked with, locust have 2 main requirements for successful breeding: that the volumetric soil moisture be in a specific range (~0.15 - 0.25) and that soil type be pretty sandy (we've found sand percentages between ~55-75% for locust observations).", "description": "The data we are providing is volumetric soil moisture in the top 10 cm of the ground surface (i.e. percent of the soil that has water, so the max will usually be no greater that 50% (0.5)). The data is produced from the NOAH land surface model within NASA's Land Information System (LIS) framework that uses satellite based inputs (see references below). From the desert locusts experts that we have talked with, locust have 2 main requirements for successful breeding: that the volumetric soil moisture be in a specific range (~0.15 - 0.25) and that soil type be pretty sandy (we've found sand percentages between ~55-75% for locust observations).", "summary": "The data we are providing is volumetric soil moisture in the top 10 cm of the ground surface (i.e. percent of the soil that has water, so the max will usually be no greater that 50% (0.5)). The data is produced from the NOAH land surface model within NASA's Land Information System (LIS) framework that uses satellite based inputs (see references below). From the desert locusts experts that we have talked with, locust have 2 main requirements for successful breeding: that the volumetric soil moisture be in a specific range (~0.15 - 0.25) and that soil type be pretty sandy (we've found sand percentages between ~55-75% for locust observations).", "title": "SoilMoistureEastAfrica", "tags": [ "Soil", "Soil Moisture", "Locusts", "SERVIR" ], "type": "Image Service", "typeKeywords": [ "Data", "Service", "Image Service", "ArcGIS Server" ], "thumbnail": "", "url": "https://localhost/arcgis/admin", "spatialReference": "WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere", "accessInformation": "Soil moisture modeled data provided by SERVIR and SPoRT, FEWSNET and GSFC using NASA Land Information System (Kumar et al., 2006; McNally et al., 2017, Case et al., 2016)", "licenseInfo": "Users are permitted to copy, use, adapt, and redistribute SERVIR data without limitations. SERVIR encourages users to keep any adapted or redistributed versions of this data freely available for public use." }