SMEX02 Land Surface Information: Soils Database, Version 1

Published by NASA NSIDC DAAC | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: November 03, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-09-11

This data set includes soil moisture data for the following 10 Iowa counties: Boone, Dallas, Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jasper, Marshall, Polk, Story, and Wright. These data were created by appending existing county digital soils data provided by the Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey (ICCS) and clipping them by the SMEX02 project area boundary.

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Complete Metadata

bureauCode	[ "026:00" ]
identifier	10.5067/RS5JQW0QA5XG
landingPage	https://daacdata.apps.nsidc.org/pub/DATASETS/AVDM/data/soil_moisture/SMEX02/ancillary_data/soils_database/
programCode	[ "026:000" ]
spatial	["CARTESIAN",[{"WestBoundingCoordinate":-93.84162,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":42.73229,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-93.16104,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":41.69459}]]
temporal	2002-06-25/2002-06-25
theme	[ "Earth Science" ]

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