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This data set provides level 2/3 root zone soil moisture (RZSM) estimates at multiple depths at 90-m spatial resolution from the Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (AirMOSS) radar instrument collected over ten sites across North America. AirMOSS produces estimates of RZSM with data from a P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) flown on a NASA Gulfstream-III aircraft. The resulting soil moisture estimates capture the effects of gradients of soil, topography, and vegetation heterogeneity over an area of approximately 100km x 25km at each of the study sites. AirMOSS flight campaigns took place at least biannually from 2012 to 2015 at each site.

Product Summary

Platforms
C-23 Sherpa
Instruments
RADAR
Spatial Extent

N: 54.1254 S: 9.87958 E: -68.3196 W: -123.283

Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2012-09-18 to 2015-09-29
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2274733329-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
204
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Soil Moisture/Water Content

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Moghaddam, M., Tabatabaeenejad, A., Chen, R. H., Saatchi, S. S., Jaruwatanadilok, S., Burgin, M., Duan, X., & Truong-Loi, M. L. (2016). AirMOSS: L2/3 Volumetric Soil Moisture Profiles Derived From Radar, 2012-2015 (Version 1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1418 Date Accessed: 2026-05-27

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The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys Miller, Charles E., Griffith, Peter C., Hoy, Elizabeth, Pinto, Naiara S., Lou, Yunling, Hensley, Scott, Chapman, Bruce D., Baltzer, Jennifer, Bakian-Dogaheh, Kazem, Bolton, W. Robert, Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura, Chen, Richard H., Choe, Byung-Hun, Clayton, Leah K., Douglas, Thomas A., French, Nancy, Holloway, Jean E., Hong, Gang, Huang, Lingcao, Iwahana, Go, Jenkins, Liza, Kimball, John S., Loboda, Tatiana, Mack, Michelle, Marsh, Philip, Michaelides, Roger J., Moghaddam, Mahta, Parsekian, Andrew, Schaefer, Kevin, Siqueira, Paul R., Singh, Debjani, Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza, Turetsky, Merritt, Touzi, Ridha, Wig, Elizabeth, Wilson, Cathy J., Wilson, Paul, Wullschleger, Stan D., Yi, Yonghong, Zebker, Howard A., Zhang, Yu, Zhao, Yuhuan, Goetz, Scott J. Burned Area, Vegetation Species, Forests, Fire Occurrence, Soil Classification, Tree Rings, Soil Depth, Carbon, Topographic Effects, Terrain Elevation, Dew Point Temperature, Alpine/Tundra, Humidity, Active Layer, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Wind Speed, Wildfires, Vegetation Cover, Soil Temperature, Wind Direction, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Dominant Species, Sensor Counts, Litter Characteristics, Organic Matter, Surface Roughness, Forest Fire Science, Biomass, Emissions, Lakes/Reservoirs, Rivers/Streams, Radar Backscatter, RADAR IMAGERY, Soil Texture, Cation Exchange Capacity, Soil Bulk Density, Soil Porosity, Permafrost, Aerosol Particle Properties, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Flight Data Logs, SIGMA NAUGHT, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Rivers/Stream, Infrared Imagery, Lake/Pond, Surface Water Features
Soil moisture profile estimation by combining P-band SAR polarimetry with hydrological and multi-layer scattering models Fluhrer, Anke, Jagdhuber, Thomas, Montzka, Carsten, Schumacher, Maike, Alemohammad, Hamed, Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza, Kunstmann, Harald, Entekhabi, Dara Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Moisture
A multiscale deep learning model for soil moisture integrating satellite and insitu data Liu, Jiangtao, Rahmani, Farshid, Lawson, Kathryn, Shen, Chaopeng Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Pressure, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Convection, Surface Winds, Rain, Land Surface Temperature
Factors Controlling a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Derived Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product over The Seward Peninsula of Alaska Dann, Julian, Bennett, Katrina E., Bolton, W. Robert, Wilson, Cathy J. Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Roughness, Soil Depth, Active Layer
Remote Sensing of Complex Permittivity and Penetration Depth of Soils Fluhrer, Anke, Jagdhuber, Thomas, Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza, Alemohammad, Hamed, Montzka, Carsten, Friedl, Peter, Forootan, Ehsan, Kunstmann, Harald Soil Temperature, Soil Moisture/Water Content
Root Zone Soil Moisture Comparisons: AirMOSS, SMERGE, and SMAP Tobin, Kenneth J., Crow, Wade T., Bennett, Marvin E. Soil Moisture/Water Content, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Evapotranspiration, Rain, Snow, Canopy Characteristics, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Soil Temperature, Albedo, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff
Assessment and validation of AirMOSS P-band root-zone soil moisture products Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza, Chen, Richard H., Burgin, Mariko S., Duan, Xueyang, Cuenca, Richard H., Cosh, Michael H., Scott, Russell L., Moghaddam, Mahta Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Moisture
The sensitivity of North American terrestrial carbon fluxes to spatial and temporal variation in soil moisture: An analysis using radarderived estimates of rootzone soil ... Zhang, Ke, Ali, Ashehad, Antonarakis, Alexander, Moghaddam, Mahta, Saatchi, Sassan, Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza, Chen, Richard, Jaruwatanadilok, Sermsak, Cuenca, Richard, Crow, Wade T., Moorcroft, Paul Soil Moisture/Water Content, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Primary Production, Carbon, Carbon, Biogeochemical Cycles
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Root-Zone Soil Moisture Acquired From Hydrologic Modeling and AirMOSS P-Band Radar Crow, Wade T., Milak, Sushil, Moghaddam, Mahta, Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza, Jaruwatanadilok, Sermsak, Yu, Xuan, Shi, Yuning, Reichle, Rolf H., Hagimoto, Yutaka, Cuenca, Richard H. Soil Moisture/Water Content, Surface Pressure, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Convection, Surface Winds, Rain, Land Surface Temperature
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