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About Soil Moisture Experiment 2002 (SMEX02)
The following photographs show the team that worked on the SMEX02 regional watershed project and a soybean field where they took measurements. To view data, see SMEX02 Data Sets.
SMEX02 regional sampling team |
Soybean plants |
The main elements of the experiment were:
- To study land-atmosphere interactions and extend remote sensing observations and algorithms to more challenging vegetation conditions than previously studied
- To validate AMSR-E satellite brightness temperature and soil moisture measurements
- To evaluate new instrument technologies for soil moisture remote sensing.
SMEX02 Field Experiment Sites
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Roll mouse over the above station names to highlight the experiment sites |
Key to the station abbreviations:
- ASOS - Automated Surface Observing System stations
- AWOS - Automated Weather Observing System Stations
- ISUW - Iowa Agriculture Climate Network - Iowa State University Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences
- KCCI - School Network for KCCI-TV in Des Moines, IA
- IA Field Region - SMEX02 Iowa field study region - mostly crop-growing areas
- WC Field Region - Walnut Creek watershed study region
SMEX02 Related Links
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