SMEX04 Vegetation Water Content Data, Sonora, Version 1
Data set id:
NSIDC-0556
DOI: 10.5067/O4NOTHLE2F1V
This is the most recent version of these data.
Overview
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 consists of Vegetation Water Content (VWC) data for two Soil Moisture Experiment 2004 (SMEX04) regional study areas: Arizona, USA and Sonora, Mexico. VWC was derived from the Normalized Difference Infrared Index (NDII) which was obtained from Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery.
Parameter(s):
VEGETATION COVERVEGETATION INDEX
Platform(s):
LANDSAT-5
Sensor(s):
TM
Data Format(s):
Binary, Binary
Temporal Coverage:
29 July 2004 to 30 August 2004
Temporal Resolution:
Not Specified
Spatial Resolution:
- Not Specified
Spatial Coverage:
N:
32.69
S:
29.33
E:
-108.56
W:
-111.4
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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