National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-0453

SMEX05 Multispectral Radiometer Data: Iowa

Notice to Data Users: The documentation for this data set was provided solely by the Principal Investigator(s) and was not further developed, thoroughly reviewed, or edited by NSIDC. Thus, support for this data set may be limited. This data set contains multispectral radiometer reflectance data collected over the Soil Moisture Experiment 2005 (SMEX05) area of Iowa, USA from 16 June 2005 through 08 July 2005. The total volume of this data set is approximately 1.5 megabytes. Data are provided in ASCII text and Excel formats, and are available via FTP. The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (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.

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Identified by : NSIDC-0453

This dataset was released on February 23, 2010.

The time range for this dataset is June 15, 2005 to July 08, 2005.

The spatial range for this dataset is 41.92° to 42.01° latitude, and -93.92° to -93.58° longitude. map (center)

DOI : 10.5067/IMY6YZME24MC
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/NSIDC-0453 (nsidc lexicon)