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    • SMEX05 QuikSCAT/SeaWinds Backscatter Data: Iowa, Version 1

    Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

    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 includes radar backscatter data collected over the Soil Moisture Experiment 2005 (SMEX05) area of Iowa, USA. The SeaWinds scatterometer on the NASA 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 September 18, 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 September 18, 2025
    Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.5067/E4QAH8TXT4U6
    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 d552f2d5-9dbb-4266-9593-fff0ec545be7
    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/SMEX05/satellite/QUIKSCAT/
    Old Spatial "CARTESIAN",{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-95.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":42.5,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-93.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":41.5}
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a4dfe4831e479c395b94817261e6d26a4c102faf15d721ff9fff8bb970a4f744
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2005-05-01/2005-05-01

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