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    • SMEX03 QuikSCAT/SeaWinds Backscatter Data, Alabama, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    This data set includes data collected over the Soil Moisture Experiment 2003 (SMEX03) areas of Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma, USA, and Brazil. The SeaWinds scatterometer on NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite collected backscatter data.

    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 April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
    Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/DROJ79M0DGES
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id efd4b79c-8dbf-42ee-84ce-320ba29f25d1
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://daacdata.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/AVDM/data/soil_moisture/SMEX03/Alabama/satellite/QUIKSCAT/
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-90.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":38.0,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-80.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":28.0}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash f75769453e86d52f233ac3fde32249d915b1d42251f09ff9438c40e98cc8de14
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2003-05-01/2003-05-01

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