Soil Moisture Experiment 04 SMEX 04 FR

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Soil Moisture Experiment 04 (SMEX 04)FR 4P001
Project Manager Dave Easmunt

• Provide a critical bridge for scaling and
  integrating the point observations to the course
  AMSR-E satellite footprints.
• Validation of remotely sensed data from aircraft
  and/or space borne microwave sensors.
• Study relationship of soil moisture to
  vegetation, near surface atmospheric
  characteristics, land-atmosphere interaction,
  evapotranspiration and latent heat fluxes.

• Customers
• Code Y sponsors the SMEX mission
• Dr. Thomas Jackson, USDA PI
• Partners
• North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME)
• AMSR-E Validation Team
• NOAA

• SMEX 04 FR 4P001
• Total flight hour cost 231,000
• Mission Peculiar Cost (MPCs) 84,473
• Total 315,473
• Aircraft will operate out of Davis-Monthan AFB
• Funding by
• Code YS
• Code 900

• Project Plan March 28, 2004
• Mission Operations Safety Directive April 9,
  2004
• Configuration review April 20, 2004
• Final Installation Inspection Review June
  28,2004
• Mission Readiness Review June 6, 2004
• Mission Management June 6 / Aug 12, 2004
• Mission Summary Report Aug 30, 2004