National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-0289

SMEX03 Regional Ground Soil Moisture Data: Oklahoma

The parameters for this data set include gravimetric soil moisture, volumetric soil moisture, bulk density, and surface and soil temperature for the Oklahoma study region. Summary files containing field averages are also provided. This data set is part of the Soil Moisture Experiment 2003 (SMEX03). The United States portion of SMEX03 was conducted during June and July of 2003; the Oklahoma data was collected from 2 to 17 July 2003. Data are provided in tab-delimited ASCII text files, 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.

http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0289

Identified by : NSIDC-0289

This dataset was released on May 15, 2006.

The time range for this dataset is July 02, 2003 to July 17, 2003.

The spatial range for this dataset is 31.18361° to 36.8° latitude, and -98.29° to -97.97° longitude. map (center)

DOI : 10.5067/KX8PGM1NYUK1
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0289 (nsidc lexicon)