SMAPVEX16 Iowa PALS Brightness Temperature and Soil Moisture Data V001

Description

This product contains data derived from permanent in situ soil stations and observations by the Passive Active L-band System (PALS) microwave aircraft instrument. The PALS instrument was mounted to a DC-3 aircraft, which flew six parallel flight lines at an altitude of 3000 m in order to map a study area in South Fork, Iowa, United States. A total of 20 soil stations were distributed throughout this same area. The soil characteristics included in this data set are volumetric soil moisture, vertically and horizontally polarized brightness temperature, effective soil temperature, effective vegetation temperature, vegetation water content, land cover classification, sand and clay fraction, and volumetric soil moisture uncertainty estimates.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/SMAP_VAL/SV16I_PLTBSM.001/
21 Data Access link for ITSD project https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/SV16I_PLTBSM/versions/1/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2F0DJCHZKY1NVO
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/0DJCHZKY1NVO
21 NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1586713401-NSIDC_ECS&m=32.23828125%21-93.8671875%214%211%210%210%2C2&q=sv16i_plt&ok=sv16i_plt&ac=true

Tags

  • land-use-land-cover
  • soils
  • land-surface
  • biosphere
  • agriculture
  • spectral-engineering
  • vegetation
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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