The invention relates to a method for inversing 
soil moisture content from AMSR-E (Advanced 
Microwave Scanning 
Radiometer-EOS) data, which can be used for the 
remote sensing application departments of monitoring weather and environment, managing land, monitoring a drought and a 
crop growing situation, monitoring disasters, and the like. The method comprises the following four steps of: firstly, simulating the most part of situations on the 
earth surface and establishing a 
database by using a theoretical model; secondly, establishing an inverse 
algorithm by using a 
simulation database; thirdly, carrying out the inverse calculation of passive 
microwave data AMSR-E; and fourthly, carrying out proper evaluation, analysis and modification by using 
observation data of a meteorological department, thereby increasing the precision and the applicability of the 
algorithm. The method for inversing 
soil moisture content from the AMSR-E data can be used for the departments of forecasting weather, monitoring environment, agricultural situations and disaster situations, and the like. The 
microwave radiation frequency arrangement carried by a Fengyun 3 
satellite of China is basically similar to the AMSR-E, and the invention can be applied to the Fengyun 3 
satellite of China and a 
microwave radiometer transmitted by China in the future after being modified.