SMAPVEX16 Iowa Permanent Soil Moisture Network, Version 1
Data set id:
SV16I_PNET
DOI: 10.5067/P3ZUS77FW7JL
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release.
Overview
These data consist of soil moisture, soil temperature and precipitation measurements recorded in 2016 by the permanent soil moisture network; SMAPVEX16-Iowa. The sites were spread out over the experiment domain of about 30km by 40 km located about 30 km north of Ames, Iowa, USA.
The data file contains the soil moisture, soil temperature and precipitation measurements for each station located at the site.
Parameter(s):
PRECIPITATION INDICESSOIL MOISTURESOIL TEMPERATURE
Platform(s):
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Sensor(s):
RAIN GAUGES, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, TEMPERATURE PROBES
Data Format(s):
CSV
Temporal Coverage:
1 May 2016 to 30 September 2016
Temporal Resolution:
- 1 hour
Spatial Resolution:
- not applicable
- not applicable
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84
EPSG:4326
WGS 84 / UTM zone 16N
EPSG:32616
Spatial Coverage:
N:
42.82
S:
42.33
E:
-93.22
W:
-94
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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