Events - NASA Langley Research Center
Soil Moisture Measurement Campaign
Event Time: 8:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Location: worldwide
To support the SMAP satellite mission, NASA has initiated a 7-month-long soil moisture measurement campaign and invites GLOBE schools to participate. The SMAP Campaign begins 1 October 2015 and will be ongoing through 30 April 2016.
Students will collect soil moisture data following the GLOBE SMAP Block Pattern Soil Moisture (Volumetric) Protocol and enter these data into the GLOBE science database. (For more information, visit http://www.globe.gov/web/smap/overview/how-to-participate). Once the data are in the GLOBE database, SMAP scientists and GLOBE students can view the student-collected data, through the GLOBE visualization tool, comparing them to the SMAP satellite data.
The SMAP team will provide feedback to schools that enter 15 or more measurements to the GLOBE database. The SMAP team will have monthly webinars, beginning 17 September 2015, highlighting schools and countries collecting soil moisture data following the SMAP protocol.
Connect your GLOBE data with NASA satellite measurements through this campaign. Wouldn't it be great to know that the soil moisture data you are submitting to the GLOBE database are being used by NASA scientists to better understand our planet's soil moisture!
For more information, visit http://www.globe.gov/web/smap/overview
Register your school for the GLOBE-SMAP Campaign by sending the following information to Brian Campbell Brian.A.Campbell@nasa.gov
Place "SMAP Registration" in the subject line; write the teacher's name, school name and country in the body of the email.
type: globe-eventsEvents origin: GLOBE Implementation Office