SMEX03 Soil Characteristics for Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma

SMEX03 Ancillary Soil Characteristics data provides soil property information for three U.S. regional study areas: Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma. The dataset was extracted from a multi-layer soil database for the conterminous United States and processed using ESRI ArcMap software. It was created by the NSIDCV0 organization as part of the 2003 Soil Moisture Experiment.

Use Cases

• Calibrating and validating soil moisture models using soil texture and porosity data.
• Analyzing regional soil classification and bulk density for agricultural land assessment.
• Supporting land surface modeling and soil respiration studies with soil property layers.
• Integrating ancillary soil data with remote sensing observations from the SMEX03 campaign.

Strengths

• Data covers three distinct regional study areas (Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma) for comparative analysis.
• Derived from a multi-layer soil characteristics database for the conterminous United States.
• Processed and generated using industry-standard ESRI ArcMap software.

Limitations

• Specific column names, row counts, and file sizes are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date (2003-07-31 vs. 2026-03 12).
• The exact license terms under 'other-license-specified' are not detailed.

Provenance

Source

NSIDCV0 (National Snow and Ice Data Center V0)

Collection Method

Extracted from a multi-layer U.S. soil database and generated using ESRI ArcMap software.

Time Range

2003

Freshness

2026-03-12 22:25:25.504678

Geography

Regional study areas of Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma, USA.