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Soils Data Access and Tools
Soils Datasets
| Dataset | Version Sort ascending | Platforms | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Spatial Extent | Spatial Resolution | Data Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SnowEx21 Prairie Station Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor Snow Water Equivalent and Soil Moisture V001 | 1 | GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS | SOIL MOISTURE PROBE | 2020-11-22 to 2021-05-08 |
N: 47.08 S: 47.04 E: -109.93 W: -109.97 |
171 Meters x 171 Meters | CSV |
| ABoVE: Active Layer Soil Characterization of Permafrost Sites, Northern Alaska, 2018 | 1 | LABORATORY, FIELD SURVEYS | BALANCE, SOIL DEPTH PROBE | 2018-08-22 to 2018-08-26 |
N: 69.8124 S: 68.605 E: -148.564 W: -149.306 |
CSV | |
| BOREAS TE-11 Surface Meteorological Data | 1 | METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS | NET RADIOMETERS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, BAROMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, PYRANOMETERS, INFRARED THERMOMETERS, THERMOCOUPLES, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR | 1994-01-01 to 1994-12-31 |
N: 53.92 S: 53.92 E: -104.69 W: -104.69 |
CSV | |
| Global Gridded 1-km Annual Soil Respiration and Uncertainty Derived from SRDB V3 | 1 | MODELS | Computer | 1963-01-01 to 2011-12-31 |
N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 |
GeoTIFF | |
| Mechanistic Module for Soil Nitrogen Emissions for CMAQ Model, North America, 2011 | 1 | MODELS | Computer | 2011-04-21 to 2011-04-21 |
N: 51.5525 S: 25.0697 E: -59.1328 W: -128.742 |
netCDF-3 | |
| LBA-ECO CD-02 Oxygen Isotopes of Plant Tissue Water and Atmospheric Water Vapor | 1 | LABORATORY | MASS SPECTROMETERS | 1999-03-01 to 2004-09-30 |
N: 1 S: -10.7618 E: 54.5792 W: -62.3572 |
CSV | |
| SAFARI 2000 Annual Soil Respiration Data (Raich and Schlesinger 1992) | 1 | FIELD INVESTIGATION | PHOTOSYNTHESIS CHAMBER, RAIN GAUGES, THERMOMETERS, IRGA | 1963-01-01 to 1992-01-01 |
N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5 |
Text File | |
| Arctic Vegetation Plots at Umiat, North Slope, Alaska, 1951 | 1 | FIELD SURVEYS | SOIL MOISTURE PROBE | 1951-07-01 to 1951-08-31 |
N: 69.37 S: 69.37 E: -152.13 W: -152.13 |
CSV | |
| SMAP Level 1B Low Resolution Radar Sigma Naught Time Order Product (Version 1) | 1 | SMAP | SAR | 2015-02-12 to 2021-11-04 |
N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 |
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| BDSNP Module for Improved Soil NO Emission Estimates for CMAQ Model, Conterminous USA | 1 | MODELS | Computer | 1950-01-01 to 2016-11-16 |
N: 51.76 S: 22.75 E: -65 W: -129.79 |
netCDF-3 |
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Featured Soils Observation Method: MODIS
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua and Terra platforms continually collects global data approximately every two days. One MODIS product, normalized vegetation difference index data, can be used to predict how much carbon dioxide is emitted from soils, which is major component of the global carbon cycle. Carbon is released in the process called soil respiration and driven by the decomposition of surface litter through microbial activity.
Researchers taught the SatVision Top-of-Atmosphere foundation model to recognize MODIS imagery features.
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Soils Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vertex | Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. | Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, Subsetting |
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