Purpose and Objectives
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MoistureMap: Australian Arid Zone and Murrumbidgee Airborne Experiments
Christoph Rüdiger, Jeffrey Walker Mahdi Allahmoradi, Damian Barrett, Yann Kerr, Robert Gurney, John Le Marshall, Sandy Peischl, Ye Nan
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Purpose and Objectives
• Cal/Val SMOS• Preliminary Identification of Reference Sites• Actual Cal/Val Experiments
• Model Validation • Effective Temperature• Radiative Transfer Model• Land Surface Model
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Field Sites
Arid Zone
Murrumbidgee
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Field Sites
Australian Arid Zone (10-14 November 2008)
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Arid Zone – Wirrangula Hills
• Flight Lines and Surface Conditions
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Arid Zone – Wirrangula Hills
• Airborne and Ground-based Observations• Airborne
• High Resolution (50m)• Low Resolution (1000m)• Thermal Infrared• Optical
• Ground-based• Surface and Profile Soil Moisture• Surface and Profile Temperature• Gravimetric Samples• Core Soil Samples• Surface Roughness
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Field Sites
Australian Arid Zone
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Arid Zone – Simpson Desert
• Flight Lines and Surface Conditions
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Arid Zone – Simpson Desert
• Airborne and Ground-based Observations• Airborne
• High Resolution (50m)• Low Resolution (1000m)• Thermal Infrared• Optical
• Ground-based• Surface and Profile Soil Moisture• Surface and Profile Temperature• Gravimetric Samples• Core Soil Samples• Surface Roughness
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Field Sites
Australian Arid Zone
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Arid Zone – Lake Eyre
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Arid Zone – Lake Eyre
• Airborne and Ground-based Observations• Airborne
• High Resolution (50m)• Low Resolution (1000m)• Thermal Infrared• Optical
• Ground-based• Surface and Profile Soil Moisture• Surface and Profile Temperature• Gravimetric Samples• Surface Roughness• Shallow Core Samples
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Ground Sampling Approach
• High-resolution Ground Sampling (50m)
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Ground Sampling Approach
• Soil Moisture and Temperature Profiling
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Ground Sampling Approach
• Soil Coring
50cm
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Ground-based Measurements
• Soil Moisture• Roaming Soil Moisture (0-5cm; Hydraprobes)• Stationary Soil Moisture (0-6 and 25cm; ThetaProbes)• Gravimetric Samples
• Soil Temperature• Stationary Soil Temperature Profile• Stationary Skin Surface Temperature
• Core Samples (up to 2-3m)• Deep Temperature• Deep Soil Moisture • Soil Salinity• Particle Size Distribution
• Surface Roughness
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Field Sites
Arid Zone
Murrumbidgee
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Murrumbidgee River Catchment
• Size• 80,000km2
• Location• S-E Australia
• Elevation• 200-1800m
• Vegetation• Irrigated Pastures and Cultivated Fields• Dry-land Agriculture• Forests• Alpine Regions
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SMOS Cal/Val