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SV16M_V·v1·dataset

Hand-measured crop and plant data in Manitoba

SMAPVEX16 Manitoba In Situ Vegetation Data V001
biosphere NASA NSIDC_CPRD Level NA CSVGeodatabaseKMZ
In plain English

What it measures. Hand-collected field measurements of crops in Manitoba, Canada, including how dense the plants are, how tall they grow, and how much plant material (biomass) is present.

How it's made. Gathered on the ground by people during the 2016 SMAPVEX16 Manitoba campaign, not from a satellite.

How & where you'd use it. Provides ground-truth vegetation data to help validate NASA's SMAP soil-moisture satellite measurements.

What's measured

BIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › BIOMASSBIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › PLANT CHARACTERISTICS › CROP DENSITYBIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › PLANT CHARACTERISTICS › CROP HEIGHTBIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › PLANT PHENOLOGY › GROWTH STAGEBIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › PLANT CHARACTERISTICSBIOSPHERE › VEGETATION › PLANT CHARACTERISTICS › VEGETATION WATER CONTENT

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2016-06-13 → 2016-07-21
  • Measured byGROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS (STEEL MEASURING TAPE)
  • Processing levelLevel NA
  • Spatial extent-98.09842, 49.38408, -97.75626, 49.76117
  • FormatsCSV, Geodatabase, KMZ
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

This data set contains in situ measurements of crop density, height, and biomass collected for the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2016 Manitoba (SMAPVEX16 Manitoba) campaign.

Get the data

sv16m_v_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="SV16M_V",
    version="1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from NSIDC_CPRD
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.