NSIDC-0278
SMEX02 Land Surface Information: Soils Database
Douglas Miller
SMEX02 Land Surface Information: Soils Database
2006-02-10
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
Investigator
Douglas
Miller
Pennsylvania State University
2217 Earth-Engineering Sciences Bldg.
University Park
PA
16802
USA
EARTH SCIENCE
Agriculture
Soils
Soil Classification
EARTH SCIENCE
Human Dimensions
Boundaries
Boundary Surveys
EARTH SCIENCE
Human Dimensions
Land Use/Land Cover
Land Use Classes
EARTH SCIENCE
Land Surface
Land Use/Land Cover
Land Use Classes
EARTH SCIENCE
Land Surface
Soils
Soil Classification
Imagery/Base Maps/Earth Cover
Aerial Photography
AMSR-E
Ancillary Data
Hydrology
Landuse classification
Maps
SMEX
Soil Moisture
CAMERAS
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
MAPS
2002-06-25
2002-07-12
complete
41.69459
42.73229
-93.84162
-93.16104
CONTINENT
NORTH AMERICA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ISMEX
Iowa Soil Moisture Experiment
SMEX02
Soil Moisture Experiments in 2002
With the exception of Polk county, the source of all soil property attributes is the Iowa Soil Properties and Interpretations Database (ISPAID). Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO, version 2) and Map Unit Interpretation Record (MUIR) databases were used to populate a selected set of soil property attributes for Polk county. Due to dissimilarity between these data sets, attribute values for Polk county may differ from those of similar soils observed in neighboring counties.
Areas of soils of a single taxonomic class rarely, if ever, can be mapped without including areas of soils of other taxonomic classes. Consequently, every map unit is made up of the soil or soils for which it is named and some soils that belong to other taxonomic classes. Please see 'iowa_soils_metadata.pdf' for more details.
English
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NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
NSIDC
National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org
Data Center Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
FTP
293 MB
ESRI Shapefiles
The Soil Moisture Experiment 2002 (SMEX02) took place in Ames, Iowa USA between 25 June and 12 July 2002. The NASA Land Surface Hydrology Data Archive maintains an archive of soils and land cover characteristics for SMEX02. SMEX02 studies are designed to evaluate the accuracy of AMSR-E soil moisture data specific to the SMEX02 study areas, and SMEX02 provided the unique opportunity to test microwave soil moisture retrieval over agricultural land cover. The Soils Database includes Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefiles containing geographic information such as railroads, roads, and stream locations; drainage features; political boundaries; and soil classifications. Data for the following 10 Iowa counties are included in this data set: Boone, Dallas, Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper, Marshall, Polk, Story, and Wright. These data were created by appending existing county digital soils data provided by the Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey (ICCS) and clipping them by the SMEX02 project area boundary; thus, the dates of data acquisition are highly variable. The entire data set is 293 MB. Data 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.
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AMSR-E Validation Data
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NASA Land Surface Hydrology/Soil Moisture Field Experiments Data Archive
CEOS IDN DIF
9.7
2006-02-10
2009-10-08
Revised the AMSR-E boilerplate text in the summary section.