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  - context: dataset
    lexicon: nsidc
    term: oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0288
    url: http://nsidc.org/api/dataset/2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=dif&identifier=oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0288
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contributors:
  - display_name: 'Data Archive : National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/4440.yaml
    id: 4440
    organization:
      country_code: US
      display_name: National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
      identifier: national-snow-ice-data-center-distributed-active-archive-center
      name: National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
      organization_type_identifier: federal
      type: organization
      url: http://nsidc.org/daac
    organization_uri: /organization/national-snow-ice-data-center-distributed-active-archive-center
    person: {}
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    role_type_identifier: data_archive
    uri: /contributor/4440
data_qualifier: ~
description: "The parameters for this data set include gravimetric soil moisture, volumetric soil moisture, bulk density, and surface and soil temperature for the Georgia study region. This data set is part of the Soil Moisture Experiment 2003 (SMEX03). The United States portion of SMEX03 was conducted during June and July, 2003. Data are provided in a tab-delimited ASCII text file, and are available via FTP. These data were collected as part of a validation study for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E). AMSR-E is a mission instrument launched aboard NASA's Aqua Satellite on 04 May 2002. AMSR-E validation studies linked to SMEX are designed to evaluate the accuracy of AMSR-E soil moisture data. Specific validation objectives include assessing and refining soil moisture algorithm performance; verifying soil moisture estimation accuracy; investigating the effects of vegetation, surface temperature, topography, and soil texture on soil moisture accuracy; and determining the regions that are useful for AMSR-E soil moisture measurements."
description_attribution: ~
display_name: 'SMEX03 Regional Ground Soil Moisture Data: Georgia'
doi: 10.5067/Q3CPBEY9F4YP
end_time: 2003-07-02T00:00:00
files: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-0288.yaml
identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-0288
instrument_measurements: []
lat_max: 31.82
lat_min: 31.2
lon_max: -83.43
lon_min: -83.94
name: 'SMEX03 Regional Ground Soil Moisture Data: Georgia'
native_id: NSIDC-0288
parents: []
processing_level: ~
publication_year: ~
references: []
release_dt: 2006-04-01T00:00:00
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scope: ~
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spatial_res: ~
start_time: 2003-06-23T00:00:00
temporal_extent: ~
temporal_resolution: ~
type: dataset
uri: /dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-0288
url: http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0288
variables: ~
version: ~
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