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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION USDA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE DOE ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAM NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION NATIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF JAPAN

SGP99 EXPERIMENT PLAN EXPERIMENT PLAN Ver. June 1, 1999

CONTENTS

0. Executive Summary

1. Overview and Scientific Objectives

2. Satellite Observing Systems

2.1 SSM/I

2.2 TMI

2.3 AMSR

2.4 Landsat TM

2.5 AVHRR

2.6 GOES

2.7 ERS-2

3. Aircraft Remote Sensing Instruments

3.1 PSR

3.2 ACMR

3.3 Step-C

3.4 PALS

3.5ESTAR

4. Aircraft Mission Design

5. Ground Data Collection

5.1 Sites

5.2 Soil Moisture

5.3 Soil and Surface Temperature

5.4 Vegetation and Land Cover

5.5 Soil Bulk Density

5.6 Soil Surface Roughness

5.7 Ground Penetrating Radar

5.8 Surface Flux Towers

5.9 Ground Based Microwave Radiometers

6. Regional Networks

6.1 DOE ARM CART

6.2 Oklahoma Mesonet

6.3 USDA SCAN

6.4 USDA ARS Micronet

7. Operations

7.1 Experiment Management

7.2 Safety

7.3 Communications

7.4 Briefings

8. Data Management and Availability

9. Sampling Protocols

9.1 Gravimetric Soil Moisture and Temperature

9.2 Bulk Density

9.3 Vegetation

10. Logistics

11 List of Participants

12. References