Soil moisture distribution at the Hordorf (Central Germany) groundtruthing site determined by mobile Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing

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Cosmic Ray neutron sensing (CRNS) is an emerging technology which is used to close the scaling gap between point measurements, such as TDR or soil samples, and the airborne remote sensing data. CRNS estimates the area-average soil water content by the detection of soil-reflected cosmic-ray neutrons in air. This method is characterized by an non-linearly shaped horizontal footprint of hundreds of meters and a vertical footprint of tens of centimetres (Köhli et al. 2015). During the campaign, a portable sensor (the so-called CRNS Rover) was used to study the spatial soil moisture variability in the target area in Hordorf. The rover was equipped with a CRNS-RV unit from Hydroinnova LLC (HI-RC01 detector) and a polyethylene shield below the detector to better reduce local effects of the field track. Neutron count data were processed including several physical, soil, and terrain corrections (see Schrön 2020, cfg file and the software ) to obtain the spatial soil moisture distribution at the Hordorf ground truthing site.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.934199
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931767
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2020.00010
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017169
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5009-2017
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1029/2017WR021719
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.934199
Provenance
Creator Schrön, Martin ORCID logo; Schoßland, Andreas; Rebmann, Corinna ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 3658 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (11.160W, 51.996S, 11.194E, 52.021N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2020-08-05T08:14:06Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-08-05T09:11:32Z