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Description

As part of the SMAPVEX19-22 campaign, an L-band radiometer was deployed on top of a tower at Harvard Forest,Massachusetts, looking down at a stand of red oak forest. The radiometer collected data in V-polarization from late April to mid October 2019. Over 4 days in early July 2019, the water potential and L-band complex dielectric constant of canopy leaves were measured at various times of day. Other instruments were installed within the radiometer's field of view to measure soil moisture and temperature, air temperature, tree xylem apparent dielectric permittivity at 70 MHz, tree xylem water potential, and canopy wetness. The goal of this experiment was to study the sensitivity of L-band vegetation optical depth (VOD) to changing vegetation water potential over a growing season.

Product Summary

Platforms
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Instruments
DIELECTRIC PROBE ,
HUMIDITY SENSORS ,
PRESSURE SENSORS ,
RADIOMETERS ,
SOIL MOISTURE PROBE ,
SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE ,
THERMOMETERS
Spatial Extent

N: 42.54 S: 42.54 E: -72.17 W: -72.17

Geographic Region
MASSACHUSETTS
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2019-04-28 to 2019-10-17
Concept ID
C3286117088-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
4
Processing Level
NA
Science Keywords
Air Temperature ,
Brightness Temperature ,
Soil Temperature ,
Surface Soil Moisture ,
Vegetation Optical Depth ,
Vegetation Water Potential ,
Xylem Dielectric Permittivity

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Holtzman, N., Konings, A., Roy, A., Cosh, M., Kraatz, S., Siqueira, P., & Colliander, A. (2020). SMAPVEX19-22 Massachusetts Vegetation Optical Depth, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/2PZJDURUJLWF Date Accessed: 2025-12-14

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