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Soil Water Holding Capacity Data Access and Tools

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Arctic Vegetation Plots at Toolik Lake, Alaska, 1989	1	FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS, LABORATORY	PROBES, SOIL SAMPLER	1989-08-01 to 1989-08-24	N: 68.643 S: 68.6228 E: -149.587 W: -149.651	CSV
BOREAS HYD-01 Soil Hydraulic Properties	1	FIELD INVESTIGATION	VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, TENSION INFILTROMETER	1994-01-01 to 1994-12-31	N: 55.93 S: 53.63 E: -98.29 W: -106.2	ASCII
Global Distribution of Plant-Extractable Water Capacity of Soil (Dunne)	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1996-01-01 to 1996-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	multiple
Global Gridded Surfaces of Selected Soil Characteristics (IGBP-DIS)	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1950-01-01 to 1996-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	ASCII Grid
Global Soil Data Products CD-ROM Contents (IGBP-DIS)	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1995-01-01 to 1996-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	Binary
Global Soil Texture and Derived Water-Holding Capacities (Webb et al.)	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1950-01-01 to 1996-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	multiple
LINKAGES: An Individual-based Forest Ecosystem Biogeochemistry Model	1	METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS	THERMOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES	1973-01-01 to 2008-12-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180	multiple
SAFARI 2000 Selected Soil Characteristics, 10-km Grid (IGBP-DIS)	1	NOT APPLICABLE	NOT APPLICABLE	1995-01-01 to 1996-12-31	N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: -5	ASCII

Featured Soil Water Holding Capacity Observation Method: SMAP

NASA's Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) platform measures surface soil conditions everywhere on Earth every two to three days. These data are used to produce global maps of soil moisture, enabling improvements in weather, flood, and drought forecasts, and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate.

Two Sensors are Greater than One: Observing Drought with SMAP and MODIS

Remote sensing data's drought-indicating parameters are essential to manage the impact of water scarcities and minimize drought losses.

SMAP's rotating golden antenna functions like a satellite dish to focus radio waves from Earth's surface into a collector on the spacecraft

Rounding up Data with a Golden Lasso: Getting Soil Moisture Data from SMAP to DAAC

NASA's SMAP team turns raw satellite data into more than a dozen data products for data users around the world.

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16 New SMAP Products Now Available

GIBS now has Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) layers available for soil moisture and temperature, snow mass, heterotrophic respiration, and more.

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Don't Pass the Salt! NASA's Salinity Mission Continues with SMAP

This webinar will compare sea surface salinity data collected by the Aquarius and SMAP missions. We will showcase data visualization and data access tools available through NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center.

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