Embenchime River 66 N 97 E 9:15 a.m. local, 9:15 p.m. EDT 70°F high 53°F low rainy with gusting wind Dr. Ranson Reports: This evening I have to admit – I am tired. I was out of my tent and working around camp by 7:30 this morning. We reached our field sites about 11, and […]
Daily Report from Dr. Jon Ranson Embenchime River 66 N 97 E 9:00 a.m. local, 9:00 p.m. EDT 65°F high 52°F low Sunny It is a beautiful day on the Embenchime! The sun is shining, the skies are clear with just a few clouds scattered in the sky. We’re 282 miles in a straight line […]
Daily report from Dr. Jon Ranson: Tura, Siberia July 9, 9:10 p.m. Local Siberia; 9:10 a.m. next day EST High 74°F Low 45°F We have arrived! We are now Tura, at our home away from home, at the field camp. It’s been a long journey, but here we are – on the brink of starting […]
To many people, the Arctic is an almost unimaginably remote area at the end of the Earth – more a land of fable and fantasy than a real part of the everyday world. Most people have very little day-to-day connection with the forests, the fields, and the people who are all part of the vast […]
Dr. Jon Ranson is an earth scientist specializing in radar and lidar remote sensing of forests. He uses these tools for studying vegetation type and biomass in ecosystem research at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He also serves as the Chief of Goddard’s Biospheric Science Laboratory, which is advancing the use of […]
Grant Wiseman Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Another hot and dry week here in southern Manitoba has us missing the rain just a little bit. We have experienced a very nice dry down cycle in weeks 3 and 4 after a wet up period initially in weeks 1 and 2. By all accounts this will contribute […]
Narendra Das Jet Propulsion Laboratory I am signing off from SMAPVEX12 at Winnipeg with good vibes, pleasant memories and expectation that this will be a very successful campaign. I hope that, like me, most of my teammates have learnt substantially about the study area and had a great field sampling experience, and have also made […]
Grant Wiseman Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Week 3 provided 7 days of much needed sunshine allowing for a study-site-wide dry down of soils and a significant increase in crop growth. Field crews were able to collect vegetation samples twice and soil moisture measurements four times! For more information, visit the SMAP Notes from the Field […]
Jacqueline Freeman Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Here are some photos from my veg team. They were taken today and show just some of the activities we perform during a vegetation sampling day. The first image is of Saeid and myself measuring crop height and diameter and recording all of the info onto a field sheet. […]
