Applications of Soil Moisture Data

Background

• Mapping Soil Moisture with Passive Microwaves ARS Hydrology Lab Poster
• Walnut Gulch PBMR data The Push-Broom Microwave Radiometer made about seven 15 km long passes over the ARS Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed on two dates in 1990. Day-of-Year 212 was hot and dry (except in the town of Tombstone, lower left); while DOY 216 was cool and wet after two rainfall events, indicated qualitatively by the Anticedent Precipitation Index (API) contours indicating mm of residual rainfall.
• Russian Soil Moisture Data An extensive network of agricultural soil moisture stations over the Former Soviet Union have been interpolated to illustrate the major seasonal and regional differences in soil moisture observed over many years.

Satellite Overpass Times

• Proposed JPL Inflatable Microwave Radiometer (IRIS)
  • Background
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• Canadian Radarsat
  • Background
  • Background and Applications from CCRS
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• NASA SIR-C
  • Background
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