Canada-Casselman

Overview

The site is located in eastern Ontario, Canada. The climate is humid continental with a large seasonal climatic variation, supporting one harvest per year. The dominant soil is silt loam. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has a permanent in situ soil moisture station network in the area (http://agriculture.canada.ca/SoilMonitoringStations/index-en.html). The site has been used extensively to develop and validate soil moisture retrievals using Canada’s RADARSAT satellites.

 

Project Objectives

Soil moisture retrieval

Site Description

Landscape TopographyFlat ( slopes < 1%)
Typical Field Size 3 Ha
Climatic ZoneHumid continental climate
Major Crops and Calendars
Soil Type & Texture

Inorganic:

  • Silt Loam
Soil Drainage Class
  • Moderately well drained
Irrigation Infrastructure
  • No irrigation (precipitation)
Other Site Details

In Situ Observations

Soil moisture, soil temperature

  • Crop Type(s):
  • Collection Protocol:

    Permanent in situ soil moisture network are installed in this site. The network consists of five monitoring stations. At each station three Stevens Hydra probes have been placed at each of four depths – 5, 20, 50 and 100 cm. Each probe records soil moisture percentage (using Stephen’s default dielectric conversion model), soil temperature in Celsius and real soil dielectric permittivity.

  • Frequency: Measurements are collected on a 30 minute time scale

EO Data

Optical Data Requirements

SAR Data Requirements

  • Approximate Start Date of Acquisition: 01/04
  • Approximate End Date of Acquisition: 31/10
  • Spatial resolution: Medium resolution (20-60m)High resolution (5-20m)
  • temporal_frequency: Weekly
  • Frequency: C
  • Incidence Angle: Any
  • Polarisation:
  • Level of Processing: Raw
  • Orbit: Any
  • Level of Expertise: Advance
  • Latency of Data Delivery: 2-5 days
  • Challanges:
  • Passive Microwave Data Requirements

    Thermal Data Requirements

    Results

    Documents and Files

    Links to paper

    Project Reports

    Study Team

    Team Leader

  • Name: Heather McNairn
  • Affiliation: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Affiliation Webpage: http://www.agr.gc.ca/
  • Position: Research scientist
  • Email: Heather.McNairn@agr.gc.ca
  • Personal Webpage:
  • Phone number:
  • Postal Address:
  • Other Team Members

  • Name: David Lapen
  • Affiliation: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Affiliation Webpage: http://www.agr.gc.ca
  • Position: Research scientist
  • Email: David.Lapen@AGR.GC.CA
  • Personal Webpage:
  • Role: Co-Lead
  • Published by Nina Jiao, in .