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SMAPVEX16 Manitoba PALS Brightness Temperature and Soil Moisture Data V001

Metadata Updated: April 10, 2025

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.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date March 4, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date March 4, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025
Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2016-06-08
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
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Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/WM5FXV7WPQ6F
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Program Code 026:001
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Source Hash 5790e5ae529b6a9f4354ee070e5cf57e357d7fac0af2c1cb678c29461293c698
Source Schema Version 1.1
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Temporal 2016-06-08T00:00:00Z/2016-07-22T23:59:59.999Z

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