AirMOSS: L2/3 Volumetric Soil Moisture Profiles Derived From Radar, 2012-2015

Description

This dataset provides level 2/3 root zone soil moisture (RZSM) estimates at multiple depths at 90-m spatial resolution from the Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (AirMOSS) radar instrument collected over ten sites across North America. AirMOSS produces estimates of RZSM with data from a P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) flown on a NASA Gulfstream-III aircraft. The resulting soil moisture estimates capture the effects of gradients of soil, topography, and vegetation heterogeneity over an area of approximately 100km x 25km at each of the study sites. AirMOSS flight campaigns took place at least biannually from 2012 to 2015 at each site.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1418
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/airmoss/campaign/AirMOSS_L2_3_RZ_Soil_Moisture/
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1418
33 L23RZSM-ATBD-V3.2.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/airmoss/campaign/AirMOSS_L2_3_RZ_Soil_Moisture/comp/L23RZSM-ATBD-V3.2.pdf
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/1418_1_fit.png
21 AirMOSS campaign site https://airmoss.ornl.gov
21 The THREDDS location for this Collection. https://thredds.daac.ornl.gov/thredds/catalog/ornldaac/1418/catalog.html
21 USE SERVICE API https://opendap.earthdata.nasa.gov/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/AIRMOSS/guides/AirMOSS_L2_3_RZ_Soil_Moisture.html
33 AirMOSS_L2_3_RZ_Soil_Moisture.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/airmoss/campaign/AirMOSS_L2_3_RZ_Soil_Moisture/comp/AirMOSS_L2_3_RZ_Soil_Moisture.pdf

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  • soils
  • land-surface
  • earth-science

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