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News Release 11-Jun-2025 Vegetation vigor demonstrates that the Sierra Nevada mountain range’s ancient irrigation channels affect soil moisture levels Peer-Reviewed Publication University of ...
Object Details Summary Rangers 1 and 2 carried micrometeorite detectors (also called “cosmic dust detectors”) aboard their brief flights. Made of a stainless steel, aluminum, as well as gold plating, ...
Surface roughness parameterization plays an important role in soil moisture retrieval from passive microwave observations. This letter investigates the parameterization of surface roughness in the ...
A low-cost soil moisture monitoring system built with a PIC18F45K20 microcontroller, using analog sensors and LED indicators to classify soil conditions as dry, moist, or wet. Figure 1: Red LED lights ...
The soil system is complex and dynamic, making it difficult to understand using traditional statistical approaches. In this paper, we analyze the causal relationship of soil temperature and moisture ...
Many gardeners believe that pine needle mulch makes soil more acidic. Since the needles themselves are acidic, this only makes sense. When we add a thick layer of pine needle mulch—aka pine straw ...
This enhanced Level-3 (L3) soil moisture product provides a composite of daily estimates of global land surface conditions retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radiometer. This product ...
SMAP Level-4 (L4) surface and root zone soil moisture data are provided in three products: * SMAP L4 Global 3-hourly 9 km EASE-Grid Surface and Root Zone Soil Moisture Geophysical Data (SPL4SMGP, DOI: ...
The estimates are of water fluxes, soil moisture and groundwaterstores in the Australian landscape, and are based on a model that simulates the flow of water through the land portion of the ...
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Quick facts Adding compost to light, sandy soil helps it hold moisture and nutrients. Adding it to heavy soil improves drainage. Contain your compost in some type of structure 3 to 5 feet wide. Put ...