Development of a Coordinated National Soil Moisture Network: A Pilot Study

Steven M Quiring1, Jessica Marie Lucido2, Luke Winslow3, Trent Ford4, Partha Bijoy Baruah1, James P Verdin5, Roger S Pulwarty6 and Michael Strobel7, (1)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey Center for Integrated Data Analytics, Middleton, WI, United States, (3)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States, (4)Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Geography and Environmental Resources, Carbondale, IL, United States, (5)USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NOAA, OAR/Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (7)Natural Resources Conservation Service Portland, Portland, OR, United States