Off to a wet start

As anticipated the campaign gets off to a wet start, with quite a bit of surface water from all the recent rain resulting in very low brightness temperature observation. The warmer weather predicted for the next few weeks should see a nice dry down take place. This will also provide a nice test for SMAPs water correction algorithm.

Jeff Walker

Hands-on training for the soil moisture teams

The soil moisture team members are enjoying getting their hands dirty with the Hydraprobe Data Acquisition System (HDAS) manufactured by Monash University.

Jeff Walker

Surveying the YB sites on Day 0

    

Quite a contrast from SMAPEx-4, Day 0 (training day) of SMAPEx-5 is wet, cold, and even more wet!

Luigi Renzullo

Canola season in the Southern hemisphere

The aircraft crew arrived in Yanco yesterday, September 6th. They managed to capture the beauty of the blooming of canola flowers, as the Spring season starts in the Southern Hemisphere. Also visible was the water ponding in the YB area, due to the over 50 mm rainfall registered in the area in the past two weeks.
Ying Gao

Welcome to the SMAPEx-5 Team

The participants of SMAPEx-5 have arrived and are eager to get trained for their daily activities.

Jeff

Babysitting PLIS

Got some problems with the PLIS V-pol transmitter and receiver, Monash people have spent days and nights repairing and testing to make the baby become healthy again!

Xiaoling

And, the workplan is ready

The SMAPEx-5 workplan has been released. It can be downloaded from here.

Enjoy and see you soon in Yanco!

YeNan