{"access":"Web based tool, via browser on desktop or mobile device.","capabilities":"The Soil Wetness app is a spatial data exlplorer showing how wet or dry the ground is - if wet, it can highlight susceptibility to flooding. If dry, it can alert farmers that it may be too dry to plant or the need for watering.","description":"The purpose of the Soil wetness app is to show the “wetness” of the ground across Britain as estimated by a hydrological model.","fundingSources":"ASSIST, AgZero+","id":"5bbd22de-b40f-4a0a-86f3-737ff165e03d","infrastructureCategory":{"value":"data","description":"Environmental data and information","infrastructureClass":"Digital infrastructures","uri":"http://vocabs.ceh.ac.uk/ri/data"},"lifecycle":"Designed and built under ASSIST, and launched in 2020: https://houk-assist.ceh.ac.uk/info. Based on the wetness/dryness maps previously provided in the UK Hydrological Outlook at a 1km resolution in a pdf. In the app it is searchable and provided at a 50m resolution.","metadataDate":"2025-04-09T09:24:27","onlineResources":[{"url":"https://houk-assist.ceh.ac.uk/info","function":"website","type":"OTHER"}],"owners":[{"displayName":"Vicky Bell","organisationName":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","organisationIdentifier":"https://ror.org/00pggkr55","role":"pointOfContact","email":"enquiries@ceh.ac.uk","address":{"city":"Wallingford"},"fullName":"Vicky Bell","pointOfContact":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"}],"partners":"MET OFFICE provide drivng rainfall data","resourceIdentifiers":[{"code":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/5bbd22de-b40f-4a0a-86f3-737ff165e03d"}],"scienceArea":"Hydro-climate Risks","title":"Soil Wetness App","type":"infrastructureRecord","uniqueness":"No other tools exist that present  wetness/dryness in a same way, and that take account of soil moisture + groundwater storage.","uri":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/5bbd22de-b40f-4a0a-86f3-737ff165e03d","users":["Farmers","Land managers","Land owners"]}