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    lexicon: nsidc
    term: oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0319
    url: http://nsidc.org/api/dataset/2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=dif&identifier=oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0319
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  - 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
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      url: http://nsidc.org/daac
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description: "This data set contains land surface temperature and soil temperature data at depths of 1 cm, 5 cm, and 10 cm collected during the Soil Moisture Experiment 2003 (SMEX03). The data were collected from 21 June 2003 to 2 July 2003 in northern Alabama and southern Tennessee, USA at crop, pasture, and forested sites. Data are provided in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and an 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: http://nsidc.org/data/amsr_validation/index.html
display_name: 'SMEX03 Surface and Soil Temperature Measurements: Alabama'
doi: 10.5067/1F8EDIZP7W1C
end_time: 2003-07-02T00:00:00
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href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-0319.yaml
identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-0319
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lat_max: 35.16
lat_min: 34.68
lon_max: -85.78
lon_min: -87.07
name: 'SMEX03 Surface and Soil Temperature Measurements: Alabama'
native_id: NSIDC-0319
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references: []
release_dt: 2007-10-15T00:00:00
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start_time: 2003-06-21T00:00:00
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type: dataset
uri: /dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-0319
url: http://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0319
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