Soil albedo measurements were made on oil contaminated and pristine soil surfaces at Scott Base and Marble Point using a single LI200X Pyranometer facing upward and downward to detect incoming and reflected short-wave radiation. The dataset likely contains albedo values for contaminated and control sites. It was collected by SCIOPS and last updated on NASA EarthData in December 2000.
Use Cases
- Compare albedo values between contaminated and pristine soils based on the described measurement sites.
- Analyze the impact of oil spills on soil reflectance based on the albedo measurements.
- Validate remote sensing models for Antarctic soil properties based on ground-based albedo data.
- Study short-wave radiation absorption in contaminated environments based on incoming and reflected radiation measurements.
Strengths
- Data includes measurements from both oil-contaminated and pristine control sites.
- Measurements were made using a specific instrument, the LI200X Pyranometer.
- Data is sourced from a specific Antarctic region: Scott Base and Marble Point.
Limitations
- Last updated 2000-12-09 23:59:59.999000; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- SCIOPS via NASA EarthData
- Collection Method
- Ground-based measurements using a LI200X Pyranometer.
- Geography
- Scott Base and Marble Point, Antarctica