SMAPVEX16 Manitoba PALS Brightness Temperature and Soil Moisture Data, Version 1
Data set id:
SV16M_PLTBSM
DOI: 10.5067/WM5FXV7WPQ6F
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
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 26 km x 48 km domain in Manitoba, Canada. Nine permanent 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.
Parameter(s):
BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURELAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATIONSOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENTSOIL TEMPERATURESOIL TEXTUREVEGETATION WATER CONTENT
Platform(s):
AIRCRAFT
Sensor(s):
PALS
Data Format(s):
ASCII
Temporal Coverage:
8 June 2016 to 22 July 2016
Temporal Resolution:
- Varies
Spatial Resolution:
- 500 m
- 500 m
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 Global
EPSG:6933
Spatial Coverage:
N:
49.79
S:
49.36
E:
-97.75
W:
-98.12
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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