S H A R E is one of the European Space Agency's DUE Tiger projects. SHARE introduces an operational soil moisture monitoring service for the region of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The synergistic use of ENVISAT's ASAR sensor and METOP scatterometer allows for frequent, high resolution monitoring of regional soil moisture dynamics.

The long-term vision of SHARE is to supply soil moisture information for the entire African continent, at a resolution of 1 km, posted on the web, freely accessible to all. Currently, monthly updates of soil moisture maps over Africa (south of 12 N) are available with approximately 2-month lag.

A soil moisture monitoring service was set up for Australia. For further information and data requests please contact mdo@ipf.tuwien.ac.at